Tor: Part 5

Tor's suffering comes to a troubling conclusion

Night drawing in, though the nights were shorter. Tor seemed to exist in a near permanent, exalted form of daylight. The mountain tops shone in moonlight; in the daytime they seemed beacons. There was never any wind.

The rook was there again, and it was telling him another story, about a wolf and a boy, and the wolf and the boy were mixed up together so …