Chapter 208

Though she would never admit it, Kit regretted her hasty decision to see the swamp where Gy and the others had come to rest. Almost immediately upon mounting Snowduster (whom she’d borrowed once more without expression permission) and following Galter and a number of her guards out into the night, she wished she hadn’t. It wasn’t just that she could imagine the sight she was about to lay eyes on would be ghastly to say the least, she was so exhausted, the only reason she was still awake was because sitting astride such a wide horse had put a cramp in her leg. The ache in her thigh was preventing her from falling asleep even more than the worry that this horse, along with Aeros, were still in the barn when she’d set out on her expedition.