Chapter 17
BUT WHO SHOULD Nellie see to ask about safe places?
She didn’t care much where they went after they escaped. She had dealt with bandits before. They usually moved in small groups and were easily distracted. If the plan succeeded, their group would number more than thirty, which made it too big to be an easy target for cheap thieves.
But she understood that Agatha wanted assurance—which could only be given by a magician.
There was a time that Nellie had known a wind magician. He used to work for Mistress Johanna’s father, then he had become a shepherd of the church and last she heard he had left the city to study religion in the holy southern city of Senoza, which was the most holy place of the Belaman Church.
Nellie didn’t want to go back to Mistress Julianna if she could a
