Chapter 42: Talfryn
Staying in Sylorn for the next week was beyond difficult. Akton improved so well each day that Talfryn kept thinking they could just leave. But Tinah begged them to stay the week—Talfryn became the main source of medical treatment for the injured when she sent the bulk of the Guard and the other healers on the way to Glossyndere—and Akton wanted to train up again after having lost a bit of muscle and movement.
“Another funeral,” said Akton, coming back from a run through the town and along the creek. Talfryn frowned at his book as Akton fell to the ground next to him, panting.
“I know. I watched him die.”
Normal practice in Sylorn was to burn the dead and the smoke rose up at the far end of the town. Some people had moved back into untouched buildings, but Talfryn a
