[Anguirel]

I would remind the citizen assembly of another piece of advice left by Eomer-a denunciation of Hookbill the Goomba. It is interesting, then, to note that the alleged first open werewolf in history, the estimable Nilpaurion, suspects him-although if Master Felagund is indeed a wolf, it is more knowledge than suspicion...

Other groundless and widely unpopular accusations, defying apparent sense, have been suggested by Nilp-chiefly Celuien, who is on the absolute bottom of my list. Could Nilpaurion be driving for suicide to protect Hookbill behind his corpse? If so, using Hookbill as a touchstone would expose him-but would be terribly risky. Yet Hookbill does seem dangerous to me; his condemnation of Eomer was alarmingly naive. It might be said that so was my assault on the phantom ; but I did not, in fact, think the healer guilty, only divisive; I voted, in fact, in a failed attempt to save Eomer, whose rational senses and cunning I was eager to preserve.