CHAPTER 24
“People coming,” Penrys called back to the others. “Two men, about five miles out.”
She rode just off the path, as the only one not leading a pack-string, so that everyone else could stay together.
Najud glanced over at her. *How did you miss them in the morning?*
*I can only check a trail ten miles wide, with me in the center. If they were coming from east or west and more than five miles away, I wouldn’t sense them.*
*But you can feel them now.*
She nodded. “Two bikrajab,” she said out loud, for Khizuwi’s benefit. “And their horses.”
Khizuwi asked, “From the east?”
“That’s right,” she said.
“That’ll be Jiqlaraz and maybe his nal-jarghal, from clan Rashaban of the Dhajtawhaz tribe. Their trail to the Maqurrah should cross this track somewhere around here.”
Penrys glan
