"CURIOSITY KILLS THE ADVENTURER." HENBANE calls up from below him.     “And satisfaction brings it back,” Beetle calls back, although he doesn’t think Henbane can hear him. His own voice echoes around his head from where it’s stuffed into a crevice in the wall.     Beetle, to the despair of many of his peers and both his teachers, has always been far to curio...

    “WHAT DO YOU THINK, PIP?” Henbane watches as the little white rat scrambles over the knotted, winding roots of the tree before them. They’re deep in the dungeon, deeper than she thought this level even went, and far enough down that she’s starting to feel the ground warm beneath her hooves, instead of the endless cold of stone. The water that burbles through this vast chamber is warm, also, bathing the walls with steam, and she wonde...