I think the wolf and I sensed it at the same time. ‘There’s something alive back there,’ I said quietly. ‘Deeper in the quarry.’ ‘What is it?’ the Fool asked me. ‘I don’t know.’ A shivering ran all over me. My Wit-sense of whatever was back there ebbed and flowed. The more I tried for a feel of what it was, the more it eluded me. ‘Verity?’ Kettricken asked. It broke my heart to see hope quicken once more in her eyes. ‘No,’ I told her gently. ‘I don’t think so. It doesn’t feel like a human. It’s like nothing I’ve ever sensed before.’
