Chapter 29 Violya-1
29 VIOLYA V, the captains Laurya and Daya, the youngblood Monya plus six more skilled warriors travelled with Nameeri from Riaow to the edges of the Meliok mountains on the South Road. They rode Fert horses and led pack animals with food and barrels of water. At the Melioks they met three hardened border warriors. One took their horses, and the other two guided them and the pack animals up into the Melioks, along a secret path that took them west. It was risky to take the South Road down into Drome, the usual trade route. And it was also risky to use the newly formed earthquake path. Both were likely being watched by Dromedars and, possibly, the Ferts. Although V suspected their gaze was directed inward with the present Thorne turmoil. They trekked west for four days, the bright sum
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