Chapter Five
December Snow
The first major blizzard struck in mid-December, two days before Mastin and the men returned from Wallis.The whole compound came to a screeching stop for one full day and night, until most of the twenty inches of snow could be dug out.Around the outside of Alta Novis, every man pitched in to clear the white powder at least ten feet away from the walls.Otherwise any enemy approaching could easily climb over the walls by building up the drifts.
During that time, when the world settled in for a few days to let Mother Nature blow unrelentingly over them, Yulen and Atty spend an exorbitant amount of time upstairs in bed.Atty now was in her second trimester, and not only had her hormones gone totally off the scale, so had her s*x drive.And somehow, for some inexplic
