 Will takes Alyss to Grimsdell wood during the day and Alyss works out how the magician made the Night Warrior.Following this Alyss sends a report to Halt and Crowley with a pigeon.Halt (Will's former mentor) gets the report and decides he should send Horace, a knight on the king's guard as well as a friend of Will and Alyss, to help with Will's mission.