Chapter 39 The Mythril Banquet

• Master Thunderbeard arrived three days later with two other Guild inspectors and a scribe who looked too young to grow a beard. They came in a plain wagon, unannounced, but Kaelen had been watching the road since dawn.
• "They're here," he said, his voice tight.
• I wiped my hands on my apron and walked to the door. Thunderbeard climbed down from the wagon, his iron beard catching the pale light. He looked at me and nodded once.