[Anguirel]

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace; and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.

I'm getting rather tired of Much Ado, Dark Floozy. Slip us some History or Tragedy; save the comedy for after the death of your second wolf, I would, when this really will be Much Ado About Nothing...

Sauce said exactly the same about LMP's death as the phantom, down to the very categorisation of suspects, at greater length. This fairly superfluous reasoning does make me wonder.

However, I am not at all suspicious regarding his denunciation of LMP - it's perfectly in character for an innocent Sauce, earnestly trying to find a wolf, who just can't help suspecting, practically against his will, his own foe.

We have a great advantage in numbers as it stands, and even if we bag another wolf today that will not, I understand, free us from the Dark Deary's sport. So I'm tempted to relax and revert to a bit of grudge-fulfillment. I can't really be bothered to wolf-hunt when it leads not to victory, Silmarils and luthien, but to a Beckettian anti-climax.

I remain entirely unconvinced about Diamond's guilt and now also am pretty certain of Kath's innocence...