Having done a quick mental tabulation, Yulen commented, “Keelor was twelve, then, when she and Eenoi disappeared?”
Both men nodded. “The day before you and your men arrived. It was the next day when the council appointed me as her guardian. You attacked our compound that night.” Fortune looked at the paleness that had come over the Battle Lord’s countenance, and he wondered if the man had ever been aware of the magnitude of destruction he’d caused.
“Atty is the last of her lineage. Dayman had been an only child. Eenoi had had an older brother, but he’d died of tree fever when he was a child. And then, when the council made clear their belief that Atty would lose all her abilities and skills to hunt once she gave herself to another, Atty swore to remain chaste, in order to protec
