"They'll be eager to learn," he says in a sort of mild affirmation regarding the Coven. "They always are."

The rest, however, is a cause for mild concern. The moss will prove to be of interest in keeping back the Cwyld, regardless of what he's heard of its unfortunate, devouring properties. But if that is only a bulwark, and not an completely solution, then it is an impermanent one at best.

"A part of its natural, inevitable progress? Or is it growing faster than expected?"