Eleven The Book Spring 922 MC Albreda quickly grew comfortable with her new responsibilities, which were not too taxing, allowing her all afternoon to do her own research. The trouble was, however, she had no plan as to how that should be conducted. She started by reading everything she could about the Whitewood, but this proved a dead end as there were no significant works on that area. She managed to find a couple of vague references to it within books about the northern frontier, but it appeared it held little interest to the scholars who compiled the tomes in Shrewesdale. She visited Fang every few days, the jaunt outside the city refreshing her. They soon found a small hill with a distinctive twisted walnut tree atop it, and this became their regular meeting place. As it was beyon

