Mallory interrupted her brother when he started to argue with Callum. “Looks like we’ve reached Galna’s place.” She gestured towards the dirt track that led off the road to a house with an apple orchard behind it and off to the left and hay fields out to the right. They followed the track to the house, a timber post and rail fence running along the side of the track and separating them from the orchard. A small herd of sheep grazed beneath the trees.
Before they reached the house, a woman came out to greet them, a broad brimmed straw hat shading her face. “Can I help you?”
Mallory waited until they’d all dismounted before she spoke, introducing all of them and learning that the woman was Galna before she explained why they were there.
Galna laughed, disbelief filling the sound. “He sent
