Chapter 12
THE STORY that the boys had seen princess Celine went around the camp like wildfire.
By the end of that afternoon, a group of people, mainly women, had gathered at the spot in the reeds where the boys had seen Celine, and they stood on the bank, staring over the water. A steady drizzle of rain fell from the sky, but that didn’t seem to bother them.
At first, Johanna had tried to explain that what the boys had seen was an evil construct of magic, but although the women listened politely, none of them said anything or asked any questions, and none of them went back to the camp.
Johanna looked around that circle of tired-looking, pale faces and empty eyes, wet and bedraggled clothes that had seen better days. A shiver came over her. No one had seen the green light coming from t
