Chapter 7
Con Game
One thing about Finkle that Esmerelda gained from firsthand experience was that he was a particularly bold and clever adversary, and he knew it. Before responding to her invitation via the Snyad messenger, he made it his business to gather all the information he could about his destination before making the journey. He knew that Coventry was landlocked between four other kingdoms. What he had also found out was that the land was suffering from a long drought and an increasingly distraught monarch. The king blamed the drought on magic and drove every practicing user of every magical devotion that he could find from his kingdom.
When Finkle arrived, he used his eagle disguise effectively and had everyone hoodwinked, and he knew it. They did not suspect the eagle to be a
