11
Liadan
Three days after the assault on the north wall, he asked her to come with him into the Coill Dorcha.
Not in those words. He appeared at the lore-hall in the morning with the territorial map already rolled under one arm and the look of a man who had been working through a problem in his sleep and had arrived at a conclusion that required testing in person, and he said: "The rowan marker's reinforcement will hold for forty days. I need to understand what it's holding against — specifically. I need to read the south-western boundary from the inside of the Coill." He paused, and the pause had the quality of a concession he was making deliberately rather than reluctantly. "Your Fáidh tracked the entity's presence in the forest more clearly than anything I have. I want your readings
