CHAPTER 28
Penrys’s arms wouldn’t obey her, and she felt Zandaril’s panic at her back. She couldn’t speak, and she suspected whoever this was could hear her mind-speech if she tried to reach Zandaril privately.
He knows where we are, and if he has mind-speech he knows what we are, too. Might as well try to protect ourselves. I’ve got to play the part of an apprentice from sarq-Zannib. Trapped by the invasion, just trying to get out in an unwatched direction.
After a few minutes, she heard the rustle of bushes and two pairs of feet crossed her line of sight. The pressure holding her immobile released, and she felt Zandaril being hauled up off of her. She scrambled up on her own without waiting for their hands, and raised her mind shield, for all the good she suspected it would be.
“Sorr
