[ If he thought that stare would go ignored, guess what, he's wrong. Childermass gives him a flat look in return, utterly deadpan when he decides to add, ]

I'm not the murderer. [ Just to clear that up. Thief, yeah, probably. It could mean him, although being counted amongst the likes of Drawlight and Lascelles would be stomach-turning if he ever let things like that bother him. Luckily, he doesn't, so moving on. ] And yes, something like that. I did wonder if the nameless slave might have been John Uskglass himself, but apparently not...

[ Not that "the book" feels like enlightening anyone to the truth of that matter. ]

That part aside, it did predict everything tidily. Would have been nice to have known it all beforehand, only then it wouldn't really be a prophecy, now would it?