Chapter 38There was turmoil. Fears that had hitherto hovered at the edges of awareness like uneasy dreams rolled inexorably forward, proclaiming themselves beyond any denial. The rumbling doubts of years were focusing themselves into an indisputable and immediate certainty.
‘It is the spawn of the Great Evil.’
‘And it hunts the strange mover.’
Yet as many doubts swirled about this enigmatic figure as fears about the manifest evil.
‘His power is unknown.’
‘He carries a darkness of his own that is beyond us.’
But the speed of the events now unfolding demanded action.
What was to be done?
‘To stay one darkness will be to admit another, and who can say what consequences might flow from that?’
‘And who can say what consequences will ensue should the mover fall? There has not been such
