The Bark of the Bog Owl
“He decided he might as well just go back home to Longleaf. There seemed nothing else for him to do in the battle camp; he had delivered the parcels to his brothers, and he could report back to Father that they were in good health. But this wasn’t at all what he had imagined.
Though there were still two hours of daylight left, Aidan decided it was best to find an out-of-the-way place where he could lie down and sleep out the night before heading home in the morning. It had been an exhausting couple of days. He wandered through the camp, hardly even looking at the soldiers who stood in idle groups outside their tents. These men had been his heroes, the mighty men of Corenwald; now he could hardly bear the sight of them.
It was going to be a warm, cloudless night; Aidan would need no tent over his head. He picked a spot between two tents, underneath the tent ropes. He spread out the flour sack beneath him and used his panther cape for a cover.
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