CHAPTER 21
“Tell me everything!”
After a week isolated together on the trail, Khizuwi was a breath of fresh air for the trackers, and Penrys was amused to see how he charmed them all, even Ilzay.
At Najud’s insistence, Khizuwi had cheerfully abandoned his kamah to share their living space. Penrys regretted their loss of privacy, but they couldn’t leave him to shiver when he could sleep warm in their roomy kazr. The nominal bed hanging didn’t suit her sense of modesty, but there would be other times.
Now, in the fading afternoon light, he poked busily into everyone’s affairs. Once he caught Penrys following him with her eyes, as he moved from Jirkat, cleaning his horse gear, to Winnajhubr, who bowed respectfully, and he winked at her before quizzing the young man about his family.
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