A Revenge Blow - Part 10

But the man made no attempt to reply. He rushed away, pretending that he could not hear her. As if to answer was to ensure that he would fall into the Yarmdon trap that he was so certain of.

"It's a good thing we finished that other quest so quickly," Vale noted. "It seems that we will take a while longer looking for the target of this one."

"If Northy had been here, we could have solved it in half the time," Harland said. "He could have sniffed it out, using the wind… I never did understand how he managed to do that, not even at the very end. Only thing I could be certain of was that it wasn't entirely bollox. His sense of direction was impossibly good."

"Are we going to split up, then?" Silverfish said. "Be quicker. An' it isn't like we're going to fall to the likes of a goblin or Hobgoblin. Whoever finds it will be able to get the job done."

"And if you get lost?" Harland said.