Chapter 108

Lorne left to handle the sale of the Keeps items. Stellan, Rowena and the guard who had found Pèigi went looking for the Magistrate. He was an unctuous little man who made them wait for several minutes before seeing them.

"What are you here for?" he demanded when all three of them trooped into his office.

"We're reporting a crime, torture and murder," Stellan replied. "Of a wee slip of a girl maid