Wizard Rarn sat in front of Thordric, breathing heavily and fiddling with the sleeves of his robes. Any shred of his polite demeanour that he had shown the first time Thordric went with the inspector to the council was gone. Now he was snide and uncooperative, as Thordric had found out over the past half-hour.
‘Rarn, I will get you to tell me what you know,’ Thordric said. He wished the inspector had taken on Rarn, but since he was one of the younger wizards it had fallen to Thordric to interrogate him.
‘My title is Wizard Rarn, insolent boy!’ Rarn shouted.
‘Fine. Wizard Rarn, you will answer all of my questions. Now, how long have you been a member of the Wizard Council?’
Wizard‘What concern is that of yours?’ Rarn said.
‘Answer me!’ Thordric shouted, jumping up to his feet. ‘Or I wi
