Chapter 24Thyrn’s plea was greeted by a difficult silence. The effect on Endryk was almost palpable and Nordath and the Wardens watched him uncomfortably, torn between the raw pain in Thyrn’s voice and the brutality of what he was asking.
Eventually, Endryk reined his horse to a halt. For a moment he looked as if he were about to turn around and ride away.
‘I don’t know what to tell you,’ he said. ‘I can teach you how to survive out here, how to fight, perhaps how to be like you think I am, if that’s what you want. But that won’t make you either a survivor or a fighter. That comes from somewhere else in the end. I can’t take you back to what I went through, even if I wanted to — which I don’t.’
‘I need your help,’ Thyrn said simply.
‘I don’t think I’ve any more to offer than I already
