Chapter 29
The journey back home took a long time. They walked, rather than running, and there were Jerutha and baby Mesu, the children, and the new foreigner, Abbas, to be concerned about, though Jabari thought perhaps they needed to worry about their new warrior less than Aria. She drooped after the scare in the desert, and he desperately wanted to get her to the healers, and to her family for good food and rest, far away from the troubles of the Worker priests.
He found that he was confused about everything they had been through, pulled into a city that had nothing to do with them, at the mercy of priests who screamed for their deaths but shouldn't have had any hold on them. In all his life, he had never touched the Great Waste so closely.
And somehow, instead of growing faster and g
