Chapter 28
“That is it,” Theirn said softly as he looked down from the sloping pass into the small valley in front of them. “My home, or what was my home, once.”
Castien tightened his hold around his lad’s shoulders for a moment then cupped his chin so he would look at him. “Are you ready?”
“I…yes. Do you think…?”
“There is but one way to find out.”
Slowly they made their way down the final distance from the pass into the valley that held a tiny village. The sun had just begun to lower over the mountains to their left. It cast long rays of pale gold over the huts and the surrounding land where they could see a few people, mostly female, as they returned from the fields.
“No one will recognize me, or perhaps even know who I am.”
“If they knew your family then they will know who you a
