I wasn't sure what I was listening to.
She and I had a common enemy?
'I think that's what she's trying to say…'
"How do you know about that name?"
"Harter has been the bane of my existence for a long time, in fact, the entire Hammerfeld family has been. If I could wipe them off the surface of the North, by the Lord of Endings I would."
She looked down.
"But I am alone."
She paused and then smiled subtly.
"Until now, I believe."
There was something she had said, that right from the moment she spoke it, my face had been frozen.
'Harter? Harter? It surely wouldn't be?'
With my voice trembling, I carefully asked.
"This Harter Hammerfeld, that you speak of? What does he have to do with Fairywind?"
Lady Ilse gave me a puzzled look. Then in that fraction of a second she realized it all on her own.
"Oh, it seems you didn't know."
She paused and spoke in a heavy tone.
