CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
ANCAERA
Identifying all the Riders and where they lived was no simple task. There were less than a hundred actual Riders, many of them from the same families. Most Riders also employed house guards. We had decided to leave the guards alone unless they directly opposed us. Still, any plans would have to take them into account as they could pose a serious problem.
Neelu had arrived the previous day, looking resplendent in the morning sun atop Reyhana, the Rorujhen who had consented to be her mount. Along with General Elazar and an honor guard, she rode through the city and on to Shifara Castle, leaving her five hundred Ulané Jhinura soldiers to camp outside the walls of Shifara City. Duskovek, the acting ambassador from Laraksha-Vo, and his unit of Urgaban soldiers had
