CHAPTER TWENTY
Kavos charged for the legion of Pandesian soldiers who blocked his way to the mountains of Kos, not stopping for anything, ready to fight to the death. How dare these Pandesians invade his homeland, dare to think they could defeat him on his own territory? Those mountains of Kos belonged to his people; they always had. And no invading enemy had ever managed to conquer them. After all, they were now in the land of ice and snow, the land which had stood apart in Escalon for thousands of years. It took a certain type of man to survive in a land of ice and snow—and the men of Kos had it coursing in their blood.
Kavos looked up and knew they had to reach those mountains if they were to have any chance of outrunning the Pandesian army pursuing from behind. These soldiers in his
