Chapter 15 – CheckmateGailin didn't wake at dawn as was her habit, for exhaustion wouldn't allow it, but eventually her own concerns must have driven her awake and she brushed a heavy blanket off her shoulders and sat up on the bare featureless plains. She saw Owailion cooking something over the fire and her patient Gilead remained in the protective sleep she had induced. She looked around and found nothing of Drake. In a panic she stood up, alarmed that he might have regained the ability to leave. She would have bet her Heart Stone that the snake would never walk again, that he had been rendered harmless.
Owailion looked at her with a quizzical eye. “Good morning,” he commented. “He's still asleep and you're rested now. Eat and then we can have this discussion.”
“Where is the other…” sh
