Chapter Three“It's time to act. We must go now!”
“How do you know we can trust them?”
“Trust has nothing to do with it.”
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The shimmering light of morning dissipated beneath the shade of overhanging evergreen boughs, creating a perpetual twilight that enveloped them with a deep hush as the Hasparii drawn cart slipped into the depths of the forest. Familiar with the barely visible trail, Kaylyya set the elegant deer to a surprising pace, turning the cart round indistinct bends and slowing to negotiate barely perceptible knolls with relative ease in spite of the fact that Evondair could not distinguish any variance between the track they followed and the snow-covered forest floor stretching away on both sides.
The heavy stillness of the woods surrounded them like a mantle, muffling
