Chapter 19: Akton
There was a place just inside the treeline at the other end of the field where Akton was sending people. He’d scouted it himself—it had a trickle of water and was set in a dip, more away from the smoke of the air than most places. Not long after Talfryn had entered the village, the recruitment forces pulled out, their new members carrying their dead for them, and Akton had made several trips to the refuge in the trees. A young woman who wasn’t too badly injured insisted on coming with him, and she began leading the people from town to woods for him.
He concentrated on extracting people from the town as he could, and keeping his mind from wandering to Talfryn. Akton couldn’t navigate the streets as easily as Talfryn had seemed able, and he wondered if perhaps Talfryn had
