CHAPTER 54
Late the next morning, they parted from Khizuwi, after confirming that nothing was trailing them. If it was Jiqlaraz and others that Penrys had sensed, they’d gone somewhere else, presumably to the abandoned camp site. She hated to think of them tearing the cairn apart, but there was nothing she could do about it.
“I know where I am. Easy to find my way from here,” Khizuwi said. “Three days at most will see me home.”
“Sure you won’t stay with us for the winter, or at least visit and we’ll bring you back with an escort?” Najud said. “I know Umzakhilin would want to thank you.”
“No thanks are necessary for us to do what’s needed, jarghal—you know that.” He smiled at Najud’s rueful acknowledgment. “No, you just send back Ariqnas when he’s ready to come, and I’ll let his family
