Chapter Ten
Llandry found Aysun and his team holed up in a hidden building tucked well under the forest canopy a little to the west of the city itself. She went straight to her father and hugged him. She’d never seen him look so tired and grim and grimy; he was barely recognisable. But he softened a little when he saw her.
‘Good to see you on your feet, my Llan,’ he murmured to her. ‘Wish I could keep you out of this altogether.’
Blotting her watering eyes on his shirt, Llan shook her head. ‘I should just leave the rest of you to risk yourselves, should I, and hope there’s a home to come back to at the end of it? Can’t do that, Pa.’
‘I know,’ he said, patting her back. ‘And so does your mother.’
‘Where is Ma?’
‘Being leadery. Been too much flapping about and panicking going on. Your
