The Traitor in the Keep

The whiteout blizzard that struck Glenmore forty-eight hours after their return from the loch was the most severe winter gale to batter the Grampian Mountains in a decade. By noon, the thermometer outside the north keep had plummeted to minus twelve degrees Celsius. Gale-force winds of sixty miles per hour howled down from the Cairngorm plateau, driving blinding curtains of horizontal snow that reduced visibility to less than five feet.…