Swiftcurrent Creek pearls

belatedly, it occurred to lestan that he had not seen jakoul at all since he had been back. of course, he had hardly been away from reverie since he had been back. akavir's tiredness and the silence for which his cousin gestured told the dreaming mayfair more.
quietly he followed but it was fit to bursting inside him, the notion. and when at last he could speak, lestan licked dry lips and whispered, "do you know about the Mayfair Murders beside the Fire Lake?" that was how it had been told, after, in the small territories, those around the glen and beyond. akavir, perhaps his side of the family had known this lore also.