They took the saddle and bridle off Amelia's horse and sank them in the stream. Shiro led the horse a mile inland in the dark and let it go in a field. A loose horse with no saddle was just a horse. A loose horse with a royal saddle would have told the whole shore where they were.
Amelia walked back to the barge between Kuro and Nathan with her wrists tied in front of her. Kuro's chains had faded once they were away from the bridge, and Agnes had given them a length of rope instead. Amelia didn't try to run. She didn't say anything at all until she was sitting on the floor of the barge with her back against the rail.
Then she looked around.
