Answer me this one, if you can. How does one call a thing when one does not know how to call it?’ ‘I have never been any good at this game, Fool.’ ‘Nor any other of your blood-line, from what I have heard. So answer this. What has wings in Shrewd’s scroll, a tongue of flame in Verity’s book, silver eyes in the Relltown Vellums, and gold-scaled skin in your room?’ ‘That’s a riddle?’ He looked at me pityingly. ‘No. A riddle is what I just asked you. That’s an Elderling. And the first riddle was, how do you summon one?’
