Moving within the storm’s shroud, I reached the lightning-savaged tree that Ahrethane had told me to watch for. No one, no thing, contested my passage; I saw no sign of enemies, though I sensed something malevolent nursing at the very air through which I passed.
But if there were foes here, they must have had their heads bent against the flood of rain and wind. I wondered if they prayed to Vohanna as a goddess to save them. I doubted she’d be much help. This forest, at least, was still under Ahrethane’s dominion.
wereIn the distance ahead of me, shrouded in robes of rain over the tops of the trees, there lifted the matte black pyramid Ahrethane had warned me to avoid. That pyramid lay at the center of ruined Vohan, the city over which the jungle had grown, and I recalled that when Diken
