Introduction: Flicker, a young man eking out a living as a musician in a backwater hilltown – or is it a backhill watertown? – learns of a hidden treasure hoard; but between him and the hoard are kobold colonies, angry giants, and the SwornBorn Dwarf clan. But also – tons of songs!*"We’ll have to wend through witches’ fells, "and then be watched in shadowed dells."And you!"-she finished, pointing at me suddenly; it reminded me very much of Thorfin shaking his axe at me, a few days earlier – "– can’t be a boggle-EYED lad"if we chance upon a dryad."...