Commander Bassinger's revelation shocked everyone in the command tent. The number of people in this tent who understood the relationship between the Briar and the Vale of Mist could be counted on the claws of one hand, and even then, those few captains who had heard about Madame Zedya's lessons from the Mother of Thorns were among the oldest in the tent.
"Has the Mother of Thorns fought the human exemplars?" one of the younger captains asked, blinking several times as his mind struggled to think about how else a powerful Witch from across the mountains could know so much about their human enemies.
"Witches have their ways of knowing," Commander Bassinger said before he pointed a sharp claw at the furry spider on Akshala's shoulder. "She's also a member of the Night Weaver Clan for one, so perhaps a Witch as powerful as her is able to send her eight-legged spies even further away than Miss Akshala can. Perhaps she has other methods of knowing."
