Regulus turned a curious eye back Five's way, because that was an eager question. But it was information Regulus wasn't going to hide.

"If you can call watching the forest people scream in anger at the lake for the past week them telling me," Regulus said.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and then a single cigarette from the pack. He lit it with a thought, wandless magic. And then made a face, even dried out they still tasted of that lake. He would have to conjure some new ones.

"I just spent the last week with those forest people until that woman- Karsa? found me."