LUDO
"Then what was it about?" Ludo wonders. It is suddenly just there, sitting beside Remi and the snakes and ladders board, reaching out dark fingers to pluck up the dice. "If it was not about winning and losing, then why play the game?" The Lullaby has seen enough of the herald to be able to guess, at the very least, that parenting is not something of which it has much personal experience. The dice clatter to the board, showing a seven, and Ludo tip-taps the cat along the board and leaves it there. "You want something," it says quietly. "And it's not that party you were talking about. The one where you ask me to work with Safrin, and no one has any special murdering powers, like magic or claws..." Yes, Ludo was spying. No, it's not surprising. "Did you bring Oria?"
