Bess cleared her throat, earning the startled and slightly irritated attention of both Grunewald and Hidenory. ‘I can’t help thinkin’ that the number of candidates must be small,’ she said. ‘Someone as knows my Gent particularly well; has the wherewithal to get hold of Tatterfoal, and ride such a beast besides; and, if you are right about who we passed in the Darkways, someone as can use the Goblin-roads as well. Cannot be too many people like that, surely.’
‘And,’ added Drig, ‘those are considerable powers of Glamour at work. There are not so many Glamourists who can boast of such skill.’
Silence followed these remarks. Judging from the matching blank expressions on Hidenory and Grunewald’s faces, they were casting about in their minds for a person who matched this list of specification
