11
SWEAT AND PROMISES
They passed through Neathin Valley without stopping, though everyone except Lyanis wanted to get off the ship so they could find somewhere to wash. None of them, especially Thordric and Kal, were used to going this long without a bath. Lyanis laughed at them, saying that the only time for washing was when it rained.
As she wasn’t human, she didn’t sweat like they did, and simply couldn’t understand what was making them feel so grimy. She did, however, notice the distinct whiff of week-old body odour radiating from them, but far from being repulsed, she thought it was pleasant.
‘It’s your natural smell. I don’t see why you should be ashamed of that,’ she told Thordric, Kal and Hamlet after they’d had a particularly long discussion about what they would all do at th
