The Shadow Sorceress
“The smoke of cookfires drifted across the group, along with the smell of mutton roasting, sheep purchased all too dearly. Secca was thankful she’d recalled Anna’s observation that wars required coins. Yet she wondered if those she had brought, seemingly enough for a liedburg treasury, would even last another three weeks.
She forced her attention back to the mirror on the ground and the spell that held the image that shimmered on the silvered surface.
“Those are picket lines, and they have cut l...imbs and woven them into fences.” Stepan pointed.
The image that Secca had called up in the glass also showed earthworks, spaced at intervals along the woven fir-limb fences, behind which were tents and mounts on tielines, and cookfires. Secca studied the image, as did Stepan, Wilten, Palian, and, not quite indifferently, Haddev. Richina studied Haddev, if covertly, but obviously enough that Secca could feel it.
“Those are to the north, are they not?” asked Haddev.
Stepan nodded.
“The city is on the east side of the river…to the south,”MoreLess
She forced her attention back to the mirror on the ground and the spell that held the image that shimmered on the silvered surface.
“Those are picket lines, and they have cut l...imbs and woven them into fences.” Stepan pointed.
The image that Secca had called up in the glass also showed earthworks, spaced at intervals along the woven fir-limb fences, behind which were tents and mounts on tielines, and cookfires. Secca studied the image, as did Stepan, Wilten, Palian, and, not quite indifferently, Haddev. Richina studied Haddev, if covertly, but obviously enough that Secca could feel it.
“Those are to the north, are they not?” asked Haddev.
Stepan nodded.
“The city is on the east side of the river…to the south,”MoreLess
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