"You may find it hard to believe," Liam said in answer to his mother's question. "But the first move that Dame Sybyll's army made was to blanket Hanrahan valley with snow."
"Snow?" Loghlan said, finally shaking himself free of the spiralling thoughts of doom at the hands of the Church and the Inquisition now that Mairwen had pulled the conversation onto a different track. "You're saying that the strange weather we've seen recently really was caused by demons and… and witches…" he said, his voice growing quieter as he looked from Ollie to the bone and ivory knife on the table.
