The ride back was no shorter than the ride there, for all that it was less worry, and infinitely more conversation. Nevara, healed and revived to full vivacity, chatters almost incessantly.
"So here comes Howls-by-Night, claiming to be from House Wyrmfoe. They're the ruling muckety-mucks around Silver Fang town, you know. And he shows off this silver dagger that your Hunt Lord was hiding - I know, so he SAID - and went on about how the dragon he wore was a sign of Wyrm allegiance, and if Half-Moon couldn't keep the Caern safe, she should be challenged... he knew he wasn't strong enough to take on the entire pack, see, even in his Super-Mecha-Digimon-Evolved form? But if he could get the pack out on the warpath to fight with the local Fae, then he could corrupt the caern from within. But that's old business. Ha! Tell me about YOU. Are you both from entire flocks of blue valkyries and goat-warrior-knights? I am a bit of an expert on Fairies, myself. I met a knight once, with a Squirrel tail. She taught me everything I know...."