CHAPTER TWELVE
It took a while for Kate to calm down enough to realize that she couldn’t keep running forever. Running blindly didn’t make anything better. Worse, it meant that she was still reacting to Siobhan, still doing whatever the woman of the forest wanted her to do. She forced herself to walk, forced herself to think.
Then she headed back in the direction of the training grounds and Lord Cranston’s regiment.
Kate could have headed for the forge, but she didn’t, for a couple of reasons. One was that if Siobhan sent any kind of trouble after her, the soldiers would be better equipped to deal with it than Thomas and Winifred were. Another was that she had to go back to the regiment at some point, or they would come looking for her for desertion. Lord Cranston had given her some sla
