A few more days passed in blissful idleness. Sunny continued concentrating on Shadow Dance, not ready yet to learn more from Ananke — the information she had shared with them was already vexing enough, and he was struggling to parse through all of its many implications.
He also resumed his habit of studying the weave of the Estuary Key, even though it still remained a complete mystery to him.
After hesitating for a while, Sunny turned to the old woman for help, but there was no result. Although she was a priestess of the Nightmare Spell and a follower of the Demon of Fate, she was not a weaver herself. Sunny knew more about Weaver's sorcery than Ananke did.
…Which was not to say that she did not know anything about sorcery at all.
After spending several days in the ketch, Sunny and Nephis noticed two strange things about the swift vessel and its owner.
