Chapter 28It was a considerable time before the clamour of voices in the wind and rain-battered tent began to reach any semblance of order. Rachyl’s dogged insistence that, ‘You never left here, you must have been dreaming,’ proved to be not the least of the difficulties to be overcome. Ibryen knew better than to attempt to force her to silence by use of his authority and, in the end, it was only Isgyrn’s description of the Gevethen that made her reluctantly concede that something more substantial than a dream had affected the two men.
But a more worrying plaint than the voicing of Rachyl’s doubts was that of Isgyrn and his fretting that he must somehow contact his land. Ironically, where Ibryen had declined to use the authority he held over Rachyl to silence her, he used an authority tha
