Chapter 24

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CHAPTER 24 “People coming,” Penrys called back to the others. “Two men, about five miles out.” She rode just off the path, as the only one not leading a pack-string, so that everyone else could stay together. Najud glanced over at her. *How did you miss them in the morning?* *I can only check a trail ten miles wide, with me in the center. If they were coming from east or west and more than five miles away, I wouldn’t sense them.* *But you can feel them now.* She nodded. “Two bikrajab,” she said out loud, for Khizuwi’s benefit. “And their horses.” Khizuwi asked, “From the east?” “That’s right,” she said. “That’ll be Jiqlaraz and maybe his nal-jarghal, from clan Rashaban of the Dhajtawhaz tribe. Their trail to the Maqurrah should cross this track somewhere around here.” Penrys glan

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