I sigh, snuggle closer to him, and

human children playing

on the frosted, sodium-vapour-lit grass.
Then I ask Magvelyn about his

hunt, and he tells me how a band of robbers tried to knock him from his

in the
dark, Elm Forest,
but he hacked off their ugly, bearded heads with his glittering

.
His voice changes as he describes it: he sounds
younger,
stronger and
happy.