CHAPTER 56
“Stop here,” Penrys said, and waited for the throbbing in her wounds from riding a trot to subside.
Everyone had made it to the fork in the road. The sounds of combat were off to the east down the main road.
She scanned the near portion of the battle. It was a swirl of confusion to her mind, the Khrebesni mixed in with the soldiers.
Zandaril looked back at her, her reins clasped in his left hand.
*Got a plan?*
She shrugged. *I can’t just make them all stop. Let me try something.*
She picked out the nearest knot of fighting and zeroed in on a tribesman in the thick of it. She reached out as she had for Vladzan and stopped his heart, then found another and did the same. That knot broke apart.
*How do you tell the difference?*
With a shock, she realized Zandaril was watchi
