In less than two months, Lile would be married to General Itzal. She had thought about this and only this for a whole day as Jokin and Haizea had carried her back to the Basamortan camp. Yesterday, she and Haizea had a dramatic and troublesome encounter with a dryad, an immortal creature that had seemingly perished in front of them. This was what she should be thinking about, this should be her primary concern - an ancient guardian of the forest had died. But she could hold the issue in her mind for only a few seconds before it was slapped away by the realisation that in less than two months, she would be married to General Itzal.
It was a cool morning and a rough blanket of dark clouds was beginning to gather above them. The gloomy weather suited Lile's mood, but the rest of the camp wa
