CHAPTER 47
The savage girl’s words expanded to fill his mind.
*Where are the rest of my herds? Show me.*
It was so strong, it actually inhibited his ability to reply. She must have sensed it, for she backed off the pressure slightly and issued the command again.
Clearly she spoke to all of them, not just Najud, because Jiqlaraz answered her. *East and north, back the way you came, lijti.*
Najud felt his hackles rise. Any man could succumb, but to give her a term of respect?
In that instant, a wolf yipped behind her, and the qahulajti turned around. A second arrow appeared in the wolf’s chest, and he fell. The girl howled at the death.
It was the first sound Najud had heard from her.
With a sweeping gesture of her arm, the girl flung the remaining wolves out to seek their target and
