Chapter 10: Adida Returns Adida, weary of the history of fourteen years past and full of grief for Alonika and her people approached his kingdom with caution and anguish but strengthened by the assurance of the Lesser spirit. He had heard in time past that the Lesser spirit is friendly, trustworthy and keeps to promise, and knowing his land so well, the contours of the land, its geography, terrain, entrances, and exits, where guards will be a place, the gates that will be highly secured and those that will be loosely guarded. He knows the landscape surrounding Alonika, the rivers, and streams that wave their way in and out, its rugged mountains, the same mountains Isasda has used so well to spring a surprise attack on them as they retire to their beds in the early hours of the morning aft

