Smoke billowed across the valley as Chekwe led the squad toward the camp. Someone was burning whole fir trees, he guessed, screening either an advance or a retreat. He hoped it was Dru covering her retreat to the north. He turned his squad north to skirt the clouds of smoke by taking the rim of a ridge. He looked back and saw Marna asleep in her stretcher, and he gritted his teeth and pressed the pace. No Hunter to run on ahead, so I have to do the stupid running. Quamdamn stubborn pig-head, he should be with his daughter.
No Hunter to run on ahead, so I have to do the stupid running. Quamdamn stubborn pig-head, he should be with his daughter.Their path across the hills brought them up to a higher peak where he could get a good view of both sides of the east-west ridge they were traversin
