Chapter 41: LouElla's TownDi was white-faced and biting her lips when they approached the fort. The moons had appeared in the East as white caricatures of their usual yellow night brilliance.
Lorenz noted that there were both men and women stationed above as watchers. When they'd flown over, the scanners had shown images of houses away from the fort, but no smoke rose from them. The inhabitants must have been called in. None of the men surrounding them had been talkative. He'd spent his time tending to Di. Daniel had been allowed to ride untied also. These men probably operated on the theory that as a child, he would be too fearful to flee. Daniel would have been insulted at such a conclusion.
They pulled up in front of the gate. Langford waved his stunner in the air and someone at the t
