Section 5: Chapter 5 Summary

In Chapter 5: Deadbolt Vulpoon, Rook, Stob and Magda walk quietly with the others for several hours, knowing it is dangerous to attract attention on the Great Mire Road. As they near the toll-tower, Rook practices saying he is a knife sharpener from the Goblin Nations, but the shryke at the desk stamps his papers without looking at them, causing Rook to realize that presenting papers is a formality that only becomes important when it is not done. A nightwaif, Partifule, appears and leads them to hammock shelters after showing his bloodoak tooth as proof that he is not a spy but one assigned with the task of guarding Rook, Magda and Stob while they sleep tonight so they will be fully rested for the Twilight Woods which lie ahead. As Rook dozes off, he hears a voice crying for water and...