[Anguirel]

The Wolf sits in Dunferline toune
Drinking the blude-ried wine:
'O quhar will I get a guid topsail,
To sail this schip of mine?'
Up and spank an eldern beast,
Sat at the Wolf's richt knee
'Sir Eomer is the best topsail,
That billows upon the sea.'

Alas. Eomer had a stout heart and a true mind and his survival was the only thin compensation we had for the untimely loss of our Ranger.

We need to take down his poor mangled body and give it a sea burial as befits a noble Scot, and to find a new topsail. Anyone got spare shirts?

Ahem. The Clan MacNilp should really give up their Day 1 custom. It does them good neither as wolves nor heroic Gifted Ones. Sad to say what looks on the outside to be but a small loss can in truth be a crippling one. Was it mischance that slew him, or design? Yet Eomer too was innocent, we should remember. In the eyes of the wolves, Eomer and Nilp were equally suitable targets, but Eomer doubtless seemed the more able to aid the village. Ironic.

But the wolves, knowing of Eomer and Nilp's innocence, may have contrived to create lesser bandwagons and duck lynching guilt altogether. This, I suppose, makes Gurthang, Saucie and maybe Jenny, for example, more suspicious.

So we will perhaps find wolves in both majorbandwagons-and outside them. So far so unhelpful As for this new murder, who did Eomer suspect and to what extent? His persuasive powers were such that the wolves need not have thought him definitively a Seer to have feared him if he was already moving towards them. And therein could lie valuable clues.