Chapter 16
When he was finally able to return to the place where they had camped and in which Jerome was waiting for him with the food already cold, although Romain's mind was still abuzz with suspicions and intuitions, he had nevertheless managed to impose a certain order on his ideas.
Given the disposition of the militiamen on the side of the route that they had to cross in a short time, there was no doubt that it was an ambush, and since they had only crossed paths with some herders herding their cattle in the previous hours, the most logical thing was to infer that they were the victims of the ambush. He did not know if it was really a lurking whose purpose was to eliminate them, kidnap them or simply follow them to reveal their whereabouts. Likewise, the large contingent of men wh
