“Where's Mina?” asked Lorenz. “Y'all didn't leave her alone and afraid in the house? Why ain't she out here?”
“Mina tis still sleepin',” said MacDonald in a controlled voice. “Just how far did ye ride, laddie? Dandy seems to be a bit lathered.”
Lorenz hesitated and realized that he should not have been able to hear his mother, yet he had. Should he lie about it? “Ah dunno,” he whispered.
“A mile, mayhap two?”
Lorenz took a deep breath. “Maybe, no, uh, no more than that, maybe.”
“Do ye ken why Mina still slumbers?”
Lorenz shook his head no, and MacDonald continued. “She slumbers because yere mither made no sound whilst she screamed in yere head.” He swung his ire on his wife.
“Ye kenned, Anna, ye kenned that he would hear ye!”
Anna yanked her head up, moved closer to Lorenz, and ans
