Should he try to find out what had happened to the scrutator?

The scrutator is a good man and I'd have followed him anywhere.

No one but a scrutator has the Art to break those seals.

I agreed to give you a refuge for a few days, Scrutator.

I was glad to hear you'd escaped with the scrutator.

The scrutator was a small, scrawny man, past middle age.

If it is in my power' said the scrutator, 'you will be reunited with your family.

Irisis had heard the scrutator say such things more than once.

Not until a good half of them had embarked, around two in the afternoon, did any word come from the scrutator.

It was dark by the time the scrutator returned.

He's a scrutator and the very name means stinking corruption.

Someone must have tried that with her before,' said the scrutator. '

That's where the scrutator and I entered last time.

Head up towards the scrutator's tent, in case there are any officers left alive.

The lines faded from the scrutator's face and his breathing eased.

It was unheard of for anyone, even a general, to defy a scrutator.

If the scrutator had fallen, what hope was there for any of them? '

What scrutator powers do you have that could influence the mind of another person?'

Scrutator's tent was two up from the row of command tents.

Nish stared at the scrutator as if unable to make him out.

So many dead, and all for the folly of one man, one scrutator.

And, from what the scrutator told me, you've been just as busy.'

When the Council genuinely wanted to discipline a scrutator, the charges were brief and specific.

Irisis looked furious but it passed in a moment and she sat down, watching the scrutator.

But he had cast his lot with the scrutator; he could not fail now.