The Moon's Forgotten Heir
He was the man who had stood silently by the door in the Silverfang healing house, watching intently as Beatrice cut my skin three times.
“You,” I blurted, my voice cutting through the room.
Osbert inclined his head roughly an inch. “Miss Marney.”
“You were at Silverfang.”
“I am frequently at Silverfang, as well as Emberpine and Thornwake,” he replied, his tone as mild and untroubled as fresh milk. “It constitutes the greater part of my duties.”
“He is my Court strategist,” Aldren interrupted, stepping forward, “and he has spent six full months insisting that I was hunting a ghost. I would like it recorded that he was entirely wrong.”