Chapter 10Antyr jumped to his feet in terror, and Tarrian, tail well between his legs, scuttled behind him, crouching low.
‘I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry,’ the figure said hastily, stepping forward and waving a reassuring hand. ‘I’m afraid it’s Kany, my Companion, he’s just realized that your Companion’s a wolf.’ There was a pause as the figure craned forward, obviously listening to something intently. Antyr caught part of a high-pitched and earnest babble. ‘And that he’s just eaten a rabbit,’ the figure concluded, his voice fading into nothingness as the sentence proceeded, so that the word ‘rabbit’ was mouthed significantly rather than spoken.
Antyr’s wits cleared sufficiently for him to see that he was being addressed by an old man, grey-bearded, hunched and frail.
‘You frightened us ha
