Section 4: Chapter 4 Summary

In Chapter 4: The Great Mire Road, the Librarian Knights elect are fitted with the respective outfits by late afternoon. The Professor of Darkness provides papers identifying Stob as a timber merchant, Magda as a silk trader and Rook as a tool mender and knife sharpener, telling them that their first contact will make himself known at the tollgate to the Great Mire Road. He instructs Rook to lead the way since Rook knows the tunnels better than anyone, and when Rook leads the others aboveground, he is amazed to see the sun again, but indifferently, Stob insists they need to get going and marches off with Rook and Magda following. As they near the Great Mire Road, many merchants surround them, but no one pays them any attention. Though Rook and Magda have nearly reached the entrance to the Great Mire...