Ren froze for a moment, then groaned, "Burn me, Dannil, I'd managed to forget!"<br/><br/>He made a grumbling sound and hopped up onto the railing of a nearby porch.  "A few days ago, off in the distance, I saw a man watching me in the hills.  He was up on a ledge, the kind you don't reach easily, but that gives a good view.  He looked at me from the depths of his black hood and I thought my viens were running with ice.  His cloak hung straight down his body, like there was no wind a hundred feet up the hill.