CHAPTER TEN
MIRA
We had to assume that by now, Dimétrian’s guards had stopped chasing the bird and were hunting for me by other means than the tracking spell. Since Shianri was an obvious choice, we couldn’t take the main road in. We would need to cut across country and come in from behind. The estates had fancy gates on the roads into them, but they were just free-standing; they weren’t part of some long wall stretching around the grounds of the estates with all the orchards and pastures. Coming up through the hills behind Shianri wouldn’t require trying to climb a wall. If Ree and I had been by ourselves, we probably would have ended up walking in circles for days, but Alénia was familiar enough with the area that it wouldn’t be a problem.
The gently rolling hills around Shianri weren
