CHAPTER 57
Rubti walked back with Najud and Penrys to the kazr they shared with Munraz. She greeted everyone she met along the way by name and they smiled back at her.
Najud noticed. “How long have you been here, nurti, that you know so many people?”
“Only a few days, tigha. I got here in time for part of the magham, before Jirkat and Ilzay came back. After that, they started worrying about what was keeping you. I wanted to go with them, but Umzakhilin wouldn’t allow it.”
They ducked inside through the doorframe and startled Zabrash who’d been dozing on the rugs by the stove. When the boy saw Rubti, he grinned. “I didn’t tell him.”
Najud commented sardonically, “How is it that so many conspired with my little sister to keep me in the dark, eh?” He chased the boy out of the kazr in pre
