Chapter SixHornets’ Nest
“So you ladies live in the City of the Ancestors by yourselves?” Barlo asked, taking longer strides to keep pace with Esmé.
The leader of the Felarians nodded. “The few people who once lived there died long ago. I believe there was some kind of illness.”
Barlo felt a pang of sadness. The city had originally been built by dwarves and then abandoned when humans from the Riverlands had turned on them. A handful of Highland shepherds had taken up residence afterward, as well as an old man who had been the Rune Reader. The Rune Reader had helped Barlo, Iarion, and Lodariel long ago when they had come to these lands to overthrow the Khashada. Barlo suppressed a shiver at the memory. It had been in the Rune Reader’s hut that Barlo had learned of Iarion’s vision of his
