Jessie exclaimed as they got within easy speaking distance. “I was afraid you’d gotten into trouble when you didn’t get back to Captain Tinker’s last night.” Her eyes took in Ki’s dust-smeared vest and trousers. “From the way you look, I was right.” “There was a little trouble,” he said. “It’s ov...
To their right a low line of chalky mountains lifted from the empty salt flats they now crossed. The horses’ hooves crunched the dry ground. Nothing moved on the desert; nothing made a sound but the drifting wind that pushed light sand before it and whispered eerily past the bandits and their hos...