The Greenstone Grail (2005)
“A further period of reflection had given him a new idea, the same idea which had occurred to Nathan. He was mildly irritated with himself for not thinking of it before. ‘The woodwose,’ he told Hoover, as he pulled on suitable boots. ‘Nathan’s retiring friend. If anyone saw anything, it would be him. No, you can’t come. You’ll make him nervous. I’ll go alone.’ He wandered through the trees for some time, well away from the path, moving very quietly for all his bulk. Few twigs snapped under his f...eet; the leaf-fall of a dozen winters scarcely crackled. Birds watched him, but piped no warning. On the border of the Darkwood he came to a hollow oak, struck by blight or lightning years before: nothing now remained but the outer husk of the trunk, colonized by insects and parasitic plants, deep in a thicket of nettles. Nathan had passed it twice in his searches, but he hadn’t stopped to look inside. Bartlemy glanced through a fissure in the bark, drew back a short way, and sat for a while on a bank nearby, patient and immobile, while the wood grew indifferent to his presence.MoreLess
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