As Esther and some of the tribe had learned to forgive Trevlyn for the sake of Wyvern, those twain and a few others had come to hate Wyvern for their alliance with Trevlyn.
"All this I have been told by Esther.

I was not born till after the treasure had been stolen--born when my mother had long ceased to look for offspring, and had no love for the infant thrust upon her care.

I was taken from my infancy by Esther, who trained me up, with the consent of all the tribe, to take her place as their queen when I should have grown to womanhood.

Esther loved not the roving life of the forest; she had other wishes for herself.

She practised divination and astrology and many dark arts, and wished a settled place of abode for herself when she could leave the tribe.