The grounds, spreading out under the moonlight, don't appear that interesting until one makes one's way around the house. Then it rises and dips in small hills and valleys, bordered on one side by a forest. On another side, near the house, a wall stands, solid and plain. And between the wall and the forest the land stretches off into a moor in which a line of curious standing stones resemble nothing more than a half-disassembled fence. The grounds cover several miles, it seems, and the more one attunes one's senses the more one can tell how varied these grounds are. Animals live in the woods and on the moor; and on the other side of the wall lay gardens and, further along, a large pond doubtless full of fish and waterfowl.

All the while Azwel watches her, his face unreadable. "On the contrary, I think I shall learn a great deal."