"Leave Us Not Little, Nor Yet Dark"

Abner awakens as night falls, and finding no sign of Pouncer, he decides to leave without her. He goes to collect the boodle, and his arrival awakes Kay, who scurries into the shadows. Abner doesn't make off with the treasure chest yet, though. He goes first to a secret chamber where he consults a disembodied head. The head tells him that the service at Tatchester Cathedral will go ahead, even without the bishop, assorted clergy and myriad choirboys that have been scrobbled, so Abner summons a beast to block the road with snow. The head is an unwilling servant, however, and manages to alert Kay as to the whereabouts of the lost box.

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