She thought she was going to need them. How could she have been so stupid as to go to Igor’s house? She’d lost so much time, and she had an awful feeling she’d said or done something there that had betrayed Mama irretrievably. She’d been so foolishly confident, believing that finding out the trut...
By then, Safi was glad to get away from the muddy crowded camp and the gang of local children. And yet, almost immediately, she missed them. Mangup-Kalye was so quiet. The silence lay in wait like a relentlessly watchful beast, and in the pause between hammer strokes, the moments when conversatio...