CHAPTER 13
Urging Demon into a canter, Kaspian led a squad of guards toward the dark cloud of smoke invading the twilit sky. Ten would be enough. They’d have to be enough. Perun willing, the messenger had reached Brygida swiftly, and she’d already arrived. Demons were her preserve, and she could save the Baran farm. She could.
Or else he and his guards would have to do. First Agata’s murder, and now this...
With Stefan and his guards at his back, they rode up to the Baran house. In the yard, Zofia wielded a garden hoe while Nina held a pitchfork, both of them bloody and sweat soaked.
Stefan was already on the ground sprinting toward them when Kaspian swung down from the saddle and approached. “Are you both all right?”
“We’re fine, but our herd isn’t. They’re almost all dead. We were o
