Farnor felt a spasm of anger forming, but it faltered and he gave it no voice. ‘And now?’ he asked.
‘Now we’ve spoken, and the doubts are gone,’ Derwyn replied.
‘All of them?’ Farnor twitched inwardly as he tried to snatch back the question.
Derwyn laughed softly and shook his head. ‘To be without all doubt is not to be human, Farnor,’ he said. ‘But I’m as free of them as I can expect to be.’ He glanced at Angwen and patted his stomach. ‘And apart from what my stomach tells me, the difference in you when you rode back into the lodge was visible to everyone.’
‘Not to EmRan,’ Farnor retorted.
‘EmRan’s EmRan,’ Derwyn said. ‘He invariably stands in his own light. And he did himself no favours by denying me the lodge hunt. A lot of people were very angry with him when they found we’d gone
