Chapter 15‘What do you mean, you couldn’t find him?’ Nilsson thundered, bringing his two fists violently down on to the table.
Yeorson and Storran held their ground before his onslaught, but barely.
‘Just that, Captain,’ Yeorson said. He summarized his account again. ‘There were the tracks of a horse and someone walking it up to where we found its body, then...’ He shrugged in exaggerated helplessness. ‘Nothing. Literally nothing. No sign of anyone or anything moving away from the body. We circled out to over a hundred paces, and there was still nothing. We went back to the camp site to see if we’d missed anything else, but we hadn’t. We’d followed the only track out other than those we’d made ourselves. There was nothing we could do but come back.’ He leaned forward. ‘That place is bad,
