I’m astonished.
“How did we get so near?”
“Lanky is moving away from Easy Port. I guess he wants to get as far from his client as he can, and while the river is windy, the road to White Anchor is straight, so here we are. Anyway, after I left you to the loving care of this nice family, whose daughter you scared to death and held hostage for about an hour, I went back to the forest to find the outlaws’ tracks again. What, what’s the problem?” he asks.
I try not to be ungrateful, for without him I’d surely be dead, but I can’t hide my surprised disappointment that he left me with strangers, passed out and helpless as I was.
“Nah, it’s nothing.” I say.
“Oh, come now, you’re not the kind of girl who says it’s nothing while detests me for some supposed mistake,” he says sternly, and he’s r
