Chapter 12: The Long Road Back

The return journey to the border of the Reach took four days, and every one of them carried its own small dangers — a stretch of ground that Talia's map insisted was safe despite appearing, to every eye but hers, to be an active bog; a night when the reach-hounds circled close enough to see their silver, half-formed shapes moving at the treeline before losing interest and drifting away; a morning...