Chapter 168: Suddenly
Black Moon Territory,
A Week and a Half Later,
The mines had gone quiet on the deeper end, and not the good kind of quiet. Janetta's runners still came up every few days with word that she'd pushed past the old boundary markers, but nothing beyond "she's alive and she's moving" had made it back yet.
Dabok's caravan was somewhere on the Degr road by now, would be approaching the Falhil entrance anytime soon.
The tremors from the nodes had gone quiet too, for now, which worried Torug more than the tremors themselves ever had.
Ten days of that kind of quiet.
Then it broke.
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Outer Hunting Grounds, Northeast Ridge, Deep Laboni,
Haji's POV,
Everything had been calm, they were tracking a Iron Blood hoove herd that wandered into these woods when the first arrow came out of nowhere, and the second one told them it hadn't been an accident.
