<i>Ah,</i>she thinks, studying Roland as she draws the sap from her waist, palming it and concealing it from view, should she decide to emerge into the moonlight from her shadows,<i>There's the bastard I was expecting.  Pretty package, but rotten inside.<br/><br/>So how would a guy like this get a Barghest into his employ..?  There must be bodies, said Nightshade's demon... maybe this girl's one cheap trick shy of being one of them?</i><br/><br/>Ithi'Ka waits, watches.  She could help the girl, she supposes... but it doesn't appear that Roland will actually hurt her at this moment, and she'll be careful that he gets no such opportunity in the future.