Chapter 38: AccordStanding outside the gates, a dozen pairs of eyes bore into my back as Arasinya and I worked to broker a deal with Dwarblrl'g Whetstone. It had taken a lot of negotiation to even get the Fae Queen and Red Cap talking to each other, and without the assistance of Lucas and the other spirits, I doubted we'd have gotten as far as we had.
Dwarblrl'g Whetstone had kept to his word – after more than an hour out here on the freezing plain, we remained a group of three, with no sight nor sound of ambush. I'd been staggered to discover the little man had not only come alone; he hadn't returned to the Realm in the interim. None of the Red Caps knew he'd taken this step and I was none the wiser as to how he'd known to follow us here, nor even how he'd known Zaen existed in the first
