She laughed when Chaol, irked at how Valerie stood in front of the mirror for five minutes, admiring herself, half-dragged her out of the room. The budding sky made her want to dance and skip down the halls before they entered the main yard. However, she faltered as she beheld the mounds of bone-colored rock at the far end of the compound, and the small figures going in and out of the many mouthlike holes cut into the mountains.
Work had already begun for the day, work that would continue without her when she left them all to this miserable fate. Her stomach clenching, Valerie averted her eyes from the prisoners, keeping up with the captain as they headed to a caravan of horses near the towering wall.
Yapping filled the air, and three black dogs sprinted from the center of the caravan to
