Chapter 115

'Any one of them could just walk up behind him and cut his throat,' Dallin had thought as he'd watched, 'and he'd never see it coming. He's not even watching for it.'

The badger had been asleep on the job, and it worried Dallin. He wondered with no small amount of apprehension what might have happened if the Old Ones had sat there this morning and informed Wil that yes, he was on trial and had been found lacking. Would the teeth have come out then? Would he have fought for himself? Or would he have agreed with them, turned to Dallin and asked him what he thought, and then accepted his judgment?