Chapter Twenty-Nine
Return
“It looks like the weather might turn uglier,” Roth Gaines muttered. He was acting Second during their flight to New Bearinger. Yulen watched as the man lifted the corner of the blanket he’d wrapped around himself and drew it over the top of his head as the snow began to fall with more intensity. It would be another three days before they reached the compound. Actually, Yulen suspected they could make in two and a half, if they kept up the pace they’d been taking since leaving Alta Novis.
He glanced up at the velvety black sky. The clouds hid the stars and moon to where navigation was impossible. If it weren’t for the road, they could easily lose all sense of direction.
“Let’s hope it doesn’t,” he replied, drawing his own blanket tighter around himself.
“How
