"Don't be too happy," he went on as he began to grow particularly smug in turn. "That means you'll be getting your cat returned to you soon."

The poor cat had been left in Troichean Beinn when Gendry went to the Samhain. He had asked a fellow apprentice to look after the cat, but that had been only for a few days. Instead it had been over a month now and though Gendry jested now, he felt a peculiar worry that the cat might have since run away or worse.