Chapter 6‘Who are you talking to, Farnor?’
Farnor spun round with a start. The speaker was Derwyn. ‘No one,’ he answered, then, with a vague shrug, ‘Well, myself, I suppose.’ He looked at Derwyn’s face, but he could read nothing there.
‘You sounded quite grim,’ Derwyn said.
Farnor shrugged again, but did not reply.
‘Edrien told me about your problems at Bildar’s,’ Derwyn went on. ‘I’m sorry about EmRan. He’s always apt to act before he thinks, but that was inexcusable. I’ll speak to him about it.’
Farnor made to dismiss the incident — he was anxious to sever all ties with this place — but Derwyn continued. ‘And I’m sorry for not telling you about them,’ he said, nodding towards the treescape beyond the window. He smiled awkwardly. ‘It never even occurred to me that you wouldn’t know a
