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When Jon, Reece and his men returned to their campsite and their gear, they found two rather bemused troopers making polite conversation with a middle-aged woman, whose upper-class accent and general air of grooming belied her style of dress. Her face lit up when she saw Jon.
“Maud! What are you doing here?” He ran forward and before he had time to think, grabbed her in a bear hug. “It’s terrible, isn’t it? Your Jayhan and my Sasha. How did you get here? Where’s Sheldrake? We’ve been closing on the abductors for days, but now Sasha and Jayhan have run off into the forest somewhere and it’s too dark to look for them. We’ve just killed a group of Kimorans and taken one prisoner, but there are a few more to the east. With any luck, Trevor and his group will have taken care of them. Then
