"How far yet?" was what Sasha had wanted to know of Eveshka when they had first set out from the leshy's grove; and Eveshka had said she was not sure of that. "Is your father even alive?" Sasha had asked next. " Can you tell?" Eveshka had not been sure of that either: she had confessed as much,...
The morning sun glinted off their cartridges and belt buckles and hardware. From a distance they could pass for an army patrol. “Hay tantos,” Porfiro said. “There are so many.” “We can’t trust them, Grandfather,” Carlos said. The hothead and his friends had turned up in the middle of the night. I...
We are making far too much noise for my liking." "Vanye," Chei appealed to him, "for God's sake—" "Liyo," Vanye said, and eased Arrhan forward, his heart beating so the pulse seemed to make his hands shake. No man called his name. Few in his own land had cared to know it; excepting Nhi and Chya a...