Tarkyn shook his head, “No. But I must admit it was strange that the Lost woodfolk were also keen to greet me like that.”
Waterstone eyed the prince, wondering how much to say. In the end he simply decided to say what he was thinking. “Yes. That is what distressed me the most. You sorcerers are welcome to act strangely among yourselves but the fact that the woodfolk fell in with it was most disturbing.”
“Hmm,” Tarkyn thought for a minute, “Maybe it sprang from their dealings with the two sorcerer forest guardians or from years of talking to the Lost sorcerers. Or perhaps from the mysterious lady wizard. From what Danton said, she is quite exacting in her expectations.”
“True. Most of them had been in the Forest for a long time, long enough to have their behaviours moulded, I suppose,” h
