10 V
So, we have a lot to do.
Llan and Pense waited for Nindrinat to recover enough to accompany them back to Orlind. With the help of those two plus Nyden, Ori and Avane, she achieved this within a few more days. Llan left with promises to care for her, and still graver promises to find out what was going on in the Off-Worlds that was ending in the capture of draykoni like Nin. She looked uncharacteristically grim as she said it, and I felt a fleeting moment’s pity for whoever was responsible. Considering that face, and Pensould standing behind her looking as grave as death, the consequences were not going to be good.
I requested a set of her father’s voice boxes before she departed, too, but no promises could be made. ‘They’re all broken,’ she said. ‘Sort of. Pa is either fixing them
