"The Keeper says he wants to know how you got in here?"

You have already begun, the Keeper said in his mind.

"You would have done better to go on across the mountains," said the Keeper.

Keeper says you been to see the place where death lives.

"There is great evil at work here," said the Keeper in a low voice.

"You talk too much when you're nervous," said my keeper between his teeth.

Keeper says the law is set on them as breaks it.

"Good keeper of the peace," he said, "will you have another?"

The keeper came across the yard and said the warden wished to see me.

"Meaning," the Keeper said, speaking aloud for the first time.