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It had been only four days since Melchol's passing, and the village rumour mill was working overtime. Everyone had a theory about who the Beguiler’s spy was; admittedly, most of them thought it was Keru zan-Tia, who, within the last few starbands, had suddenly gone from being a relatively responsible man to starting fights with everyone. Yoshan zan-Li had another theory, though - one he hadn’t told anyone.

Yoshan made sure his daughters were completely engrossed in their play before approaching Hudana. Until recently, it was Hudana who’d been starting all the fights - things had changed towards the end of autumn, when he’d got into a brawl with Keru. That incident had seemingly passed the mantle of village troublemaker.

It wasn’t going to be obvious whether Yoshan’s theory was correct. The Beguiler, if the lorebooks were anything to go by, didn’t do obvious.

But maybe it would give him a clue.