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Moridan had been right. The home guard did need time to rest, take stock and make running repairs. Tarkyn did not arrange to meet up again with the Lost and instead left it to the woodfolk to communicate the outcome of his meeting with the Guardians. He felt that he had already grandstanded enough and that the salutary privilege of meeting him would be diminished if he made himself too available.
He did wonder how the Lost would manage in the world outside the Forest. Time seemed to have stood still for them and for some of them, generations of their families would have lived and died in their absence. No one they had known would be awaiting their return. Tarkyn was fairly sure that the sorcerers would find this more difficult than the woodfolk. From what he had seen, the woodfolk wou
