Liada slowed her horse as they came to the wagons loaded with supplies.
“What’s in those chests?” Kawalski said, pointing to five heavy wooden boxes in one of the wagons.
Liada looked at the boxes and said something to him.
“Hey, Apache,” he said on the comm. “How do you say, ‘What’s in those boxes?’ in sign language?”
“Sorry, White Man, you’re on your own.”
“Gee, thanks. Whatever it is, it must be valuable. They’ve got six soldiers behind it, and six in front.”
Liada continued to talk and point out things as they rode past a wagon filled with sides of meat, jars of date wine, and bales of hides. When they came to the wagons loaded with earthen jars of grain, they heard three short blasts from a trumpet. Liada kicked her horse into a gallop, and soon they heard shouting and screams u
