Chapter 10
After a rousing session together, the two tended to the horses and settled in for sleep. The next morning, they got an early start.
Only two hours of riding passed before Ken suspected they were being followed. She heard noises in the forest to the right. She thought at first it might be a dirt dog or perhaps a pack of them, but when she abruptly halted both mares, the noises stopped, too.
Yuuki looked at her with a questioning glance.
“I think we have company,” she said in a low voice.
“Who?”
It had to be the female warriors from before. The sounds suggested light but quick steps. Perhaps one or two horses with everyone else on foot. Thanks to a fresh covering of snow, the couple wasn’t making their usual speed, meaning that a bunch of elderly women and children could kee
