CHAPTER 8
Najud eyed his new clan responsibilities, as they stood and waited for his instructions. Hadishti’s children, Sharma and Dimghuy, were already on herd duty, and he would send Yuknaj out to join them as soon as all the pack animals were loaded.
Jirkat’s group had a pack string of both trade goods and their travel loads, as Najud and Penrys did, and each of those needed a leader. The small pack strings that the other two groups had been using for their loads also required leaders.
“Today we travel to the summer encampment. Jirkat tells me it’s twenty miles. The cattle are the slowest, so we’ll go at their pace.
“After we load the pack animals, here’s how we’ll do it. The outriders will be joined by Penrys. She can find strays and bring them back. It’s a… bikraj skill.”
Penrys
