Swamped

The next place you see the older couple is in the midst of a large sketch, spread over two pages. It looks to be some kind of banquet. There are dozens of people here, but the Longs (if that's who they are) are the only ones you can recognize.

And that's not for a lack of effort on the artist's part - each face is individually drawn. You'd know right away if one of these people were Father, say. You can't recall seeing this much detail when you glanced at this picture on previous searches.

But maybe that's because by the time you came across it, you were already focused on Long and Mudviper. For whatever reason, they're not in this scene. You might have just not looked very closely before.

Now that you're giving it a proper inspection, though, one thing stands out. At the far end of the room, not even sitting at the table, there's an armored man wielding a lance that looks very familiar. Could this be Rider?

You flip through again. You see that man more than a few times. But that's the only picture where he has the lance.

You're not sure if you're getting anywhere with this. You can't really figure out who drew these, or why, or how they might have hidden a spell in here. If they even did. And all the while, the wagon keeps moving towards gods-know-where.

So what are you supposed to do now?