She learns a great deal of the Shadow Court in General, and of the growing Thalllian influence over it. Nemasus is convinced that there is an increasing number of House Ailil, the Eiluned brother house, fleeing, for want of a better word, the Shadow Court, and signs point to the idea they have lost control of it. Naturally, those Ailil who are fleeing it are probably too proud to admit why. Further, the arts they practice seem to be less reliable than they were, as if it is not the Dreaming that powers and commands those arts alone, at last not in full...but rather other someone or something else is involved. House Leanhaun's ritualists have begun moving further way for some great working,but what that working is not yet revealed. Only the Balor seem fully invested, and that has disturbing connotations. Mention of trods, many of them more like nightmare trods, that are in use in the Duchy are mentioned. Where to find them, and his attempts to ward them off. Speaking of wards, notes on how to key a massive weaverward on whole fiefs comes into play. But finally she finds the notes she seeks are mentioned if brief "Balor were never master spies for all their boasting of infiltrating Dougals...and most of their 'spies' in Eiluned end up giving more information than they take. Yet disturbingly, there seem to be a growing number of commoner youth, childlings and wilders alike, serving the house. Or..a part of the house. They bear certain trains in common, dark eyes and paler skin for some, another branch has a strange proclivity to misshapen feet or limping, and the last (That I know of) is prone to the shakes. Why these commonalities? And what is their fascination with the Tower of Ruin yet to be made?"