No searches would be made.
Well, if he couldn’t count on rescue, maybe he could escape. But then what?
He could tell the Priests that the Freefolk had a copy of their holiest book, and quite likely spark a war. Most Priests would assume the Freefolk had stolen the book and the firelance from Temple Primaxis. He’d made that assumption himself. And they would almost certainly reject the Freefolk claim that they, too, had been robbed, seeing it as nothing but a flimsy attempt to cover up the truth.
Even the scrap of paper with Denthold’s name on it was unlikely to challenge the Priests’ long-held prejudices against the Freefolk. If they believed that fragment of text proved anything at all, they would most likely claim it proved the Freefolk were in league with Denthold. After all, who bet
