‘I’m sure it is. And there’ll be time for all of it when we’re away from here. We’d just about given up hope when we started to hear rumours of a knight still alive in the south. We assumed it was Attica but evidently it was you. Where are you keeping Attica’s sword?’ The Vagrant shakes his head again, his lips a grim line. ‘You lost it? Damn! But wait, that means you’ve been using the Gamma’s sacred blade. You? Ridiculous!’ ‘The baby is clean, Ma’am.’ ‘Thank you, Able. We’ll take her back with us as well. So the sword allows you to use it?’ The Vagrant nods.
