“That"s the odd thing. Once we passed a certain distance, they just stopped coming. Something felt different, I know that for a fact.”
“The forest boundary,” Yerdu added.
“It is the limit of the forest heart"s protection.” Belyn looked inquisitively at Yerdu. She seemed so diminutive in his presence, yet she could hold her own with the best of them, as Belyn had continually found. “Why did you not mention this before?” Belyn asked her.
Yerdu shrugged, as was her way. “It was not appropriate at the time, oh mighty Wizard of Stones.” Raoul grinned. Yerdu had one again disarmed Belyn"s ego with the simplest of statements. This strange and yet darkly pretty tribeswoman was the perfect tonic for him. Humility had never been one of his strong points, and Raoul knew that this would help him ge
