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Rasha snuck them out the back of the inn. They had no money for the room they’d occupied most of the day, another mark on her once spotless record. The southern air created droplets of sweat on her temples. The princess, covered in her new cloak, rode behind Rasha on her new tuskin. She kept a warmer cloak of her own packed away among her things for when they reached the north. She couldn’t trust Lu with her anymore. He kept giving Chiza odd looks while the princess laughed and giggled as if he were the prince she needed to impress.
“We’re still being followed,” Rasha said after they’d been riding for some time.
“You think it’s the same guys from the card game the other night?” Lu asked.
“No, it’s someone else. Just one, a tracker.”
Chiza yawned wide before asking, “We’re being fol
