CHAPTER 33
Two hours later, once the riders from the camp had gotten about three miles from her, Penrys rose from her snowy shelter and trampled out a short path so that she could launch into the air for most of the final two miles.
All the time she’d waited, sitting on the tail of her coat with the rest of the skirt forming a pocket of trapped warm air around her crossed legs, she’d kept up her contact with Najud. Every few minutes she shook the accumulated fresh snow off her upper body, grateful it wasn’t much colder, not like the deep of winter in Ellech, in the lower mountains.
Najud chose Munraz to remain behind as an anchor on the trail, with Winnajhubr. He wanted someone Khizuwi might be able to reach, if they needed to retreat to the camp three miles back, and Penrys had convinc
