‘Well,’ his mother said, swallowing. ‘Given those circumstances, he would likely have been very paranoid. Giving him Winsome Sunbeam would only have made it worse.’ Winsome SunbeamShe trembled, and looked at Thordric as though she couldn’t bear to lose him. He felt his face grow hot. If his theory was true, then it wasn’t a case of outright murder. Someone had set it all up so that Kalljard would kill himself. Now he knew the truth, he couldn’t help but sympathise with whoever had done it. High Wizard Kalljard, head of the Wizard Council, was the most important person in the country aside from the royal family. Nearly everyone had respected and revered him, ignorant of the monster that he really was. Now they would all know the truth. allThordric had no doubt now that Kalljard had been

