Chapter 22
FROM ISANDOR’S point of view, the situation in the camp did not improve, but did not deteriorate either. Simo treated Isandor and Jevaithi with suspicion, Milleus came to see them freely, which he said drew odd looks from the Chevakians, who had re-established their small Chevakian enclave in the camp, and many of the southern refugees were oblivious to the tension between the Brothers, their Queen and the Chevakians, and went to get milk from the goats and eggs from the chicken farmer to supplement the bland army rations brought in once a day by the Chevakian army.
On the morning of the third day, Isandor and Jevaithi sat with Milleus in the big tent, when a man came running in. He skidded to a halt and dropped to his knees in front of Jevaithi.
“There’s a lot of soldiers ar
