‘I beheld a trio cooking, in short inlaid aprons: a fair grey man, and two youths in his company.’
‘I know those,’ quoth Fer rogain: ‘they are the King's three chief kitcheners, namely, the Dagdae and his two fosterlings, Séig and Segdae, the two sons of Rofer Singlespit. A man will perish by each of them,’ etc.