If it had not been for what the Commodore had said a couple weeks ago, the sight of him and others running out the back door would have been one clue.

But it was more the feeling of

cold and pain and the Dark

that had Wellard running for the back door, with Lord Ostium behind him. Out the back door, to where Raven and the White Rider are locked in battle-

Laughing and screaming.