Raven's Watch and as a black hand swept across the earth

"Of a sorts," he answered. While he and his own may have been out of sorts with Tavi, he had no desire to undermine her desire to hide away. Then again, an indirect answer was as much up his alley as hers. He had questions of his own that needed answering.

"I'm looking for my son," he went on. The rain pelted him with the shift of wind. "He's a bit bigger than half my size, gold-colored. Have you seen him?" Here he found it difficult to manage his usual stoicism; urgency to find Pippin seeped itself in his tones.