Don’t look for evil in the dark shadows. Don’t look for evil in the night. Look for it in the middle of the day. Beware the demon that wears the skin of those you love.
-From “The Tale of the Raven and the Living Water” (Old Tales, Book II)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The RavenThough it seemed like days, the Gumiren kept Yadovír and Kalún tied up for little more than several hours. When the guards came to untie them, they could hardly contain themselves for laughter. It seems this “imprisonment” was intended as little more than a practical joke. Yadovír failed to appreciate the humor.
He and Kalún were led, hands untied, to a flat space cleared of trees, various stumps poking out here and there from the frozen ground. In the center of the clearing lay a long sheet covered in a wooden board. T
