Chapter ten
Kyr Emder cooks Deb-lu-Quienyin’s recipe“The electrum blade failed!”
People were running in now and torches illuminated the scene. Erclan bent to the girl, whose long white dress tangled around her legs. We were running across, shouting. The fury that gripped me I know possessed Seg also. We had put store by dudinter to combat this menace, we had believed it would enable us to fight back at the ganchark. And now — this failure, this disaster...
Naghan the Gnat came running out clutching his three other dudinter blades. Seg snatched one, I another, and we ran along the path following the trail of the werewolf. We could see blood spots upon the gravel, black coins in the light of the moons.
Guardsmen with torches ran with us. In a mob we raced on.
From up ahead the sound of
