CHAPTER 11
Rather than go up one side of the unloaded wagon column and back again, Penrys decided to drive straight to the head of the line and start a hundred yards in front. From there she could go back along one side of the spine, probing the goods on the ground in their two parallel lines.
It was tricky—she had to do the supplies a hundred yards before she got to them, and the wagons on either side as she passed, and it was hard to remember which of the piles of supplies she had already examined.
The first explosion, however, woke her right up, her heart pumping in recollection of the night before.
Her expectation had been that the goods were most at risk, like the mirror, but it was a wagon which blew apart initially. She stopped to let Chang’s outriders identify whose it had been
