Chapter 23It was Taithur’s heartfelt cry of horror that in the end did more to heal the dreadful hurt of the encounter between the travellers and the newcomers than any of the harsh logical reasoning that had made it so tragically necessary.
It had been carried at maximum power to every open receiver in the tired convoy, and the pain in it had spoken to the hearts of all who heard it, telling them of his great love and of the agony of his great burden.
Taithur too felt the cry of the people rise through the countless clamouring voices that filled the Rithid’s receivers. It was the eternal cry of those caught impotently in the consequences of the acts of others more powerful.
Immediately he ordered the pioneers to halt their attack and, leaving sufficient to lay siege to Vronic’s battle
