CHAPTER 55
Najud was impatient to be done with traveling. Winter’s for catching up on sleep and gossip, not for freezing fingers and toes. Four mornings on the trail, and they still didn’t expect see the end of it tonight.
He was in the lead, at the moment, not that there was any mistaking the path. Haraq and Munraz held the middle position. No cairns along this route, it’s not the way we came. Won’t be any bodies, either, to be trampled heedlessly by the horses.
Penrys rode last, with her pack-string of horses out of Silmat. She was still on the watch behind them for Jiqlaraz, in case he decided to bring trouble north. She must be scanning forward as well, for she suddenly bespoke him. *Visitors ahead, Naj-sha. It’s all three of them! Jirkat, Ilzay, and even Winnajhubr. If no one stops
