narrators of fate

Atharann spends an eve at the Crossway House in Herne, contemplating what he recently has come to know.

The plan is made, and they set off purposefully in the dark to find their suspect. Kaes seemed born to be the bait, much to the surprise of the other characters. The woman garbed herself in an appealing red dress and many jokes were made about her being 'man bait'. But none could deny the sensual woman knew her work.

Greengrove finds the Heart Trio, and receives a warning from the maiden who had fled from the Thorn Archer's spree.

A group of avid investigators gather in Combe, discussing an enormous thorn used as an arrowhead by the suspected killer of Basil Woods.

---Seven months earlier---
"Didn' ye ever learn from yer father?"
Perhaps it was Aiden's death that caused Ryheric to be hard towards Bryn up until that point. Another peer of similar age. A man who could be like a brother. But Bryn was so much more sheltered, more fragile. It bought an easy, instinctive resentment from Ryheric to whom grief was foreign even as it ate at him deep down.