right. It did escape. I suspect the creature you saw in the opera house was an unborn, one grown old in its power, the target of the Silent Sister’s spell. Probably an important lieutenant to the Dead King. A captain of his armies maybe.’ ‘But it’s not following us?’ It was following us. I knew it. ‘Did you not listen to the dream-witch, Jal?’ ‘He said a lot of things … Mostly about killing you – and how I could go home if I did.’ ‘The curse, the Silent Sister’s
