CHAPTER 16
After the evening meal, Penrys and Najud entered the one large kazr left standing but empty and found a spot near Umzakhilin. Everyone sat on the rugs that covered the ground, several layers deep in spots.
*This could go on most of the night. It’s a complicated situation.*
She thought Najud’s warning was well-founded. The people in the kazr were settling by clan, the Kurighdunaq’s eleven beefed up by another eight called home from the other two clans. That nineteen was about the size of each of the two small detachments sent by the other clans to help.
Hadishti sat next to Penrys, with her children behind her, wide-eyed at the sight of all the new faces and the strange gathering.
She whispered to Penrys, “He went and found his own kazr, among the ones we brought back—the on
