Chapter 94: Misleading

The path long and sinuous, there were few who were likely to travel along it despite its shade and relative serenity. Coiling along the outskirts of Ineset, the route was too small for carriages and housed only a small enclave of select residents whom Allen had no desire to happen upon as he progressed along it mindfully. Air shaking the leaves, their shadows created waves of movement on the dry dirt of the walkway ahead of him. The motion of the branches, unsettling what tranquility he had managed to find, Allen’s tentative steps were further interrupted by the sound of a twig snapping underfoot behind him.

The sudden alarm, causing his feet to halt abruptly in the center of the path and head to jerk toward the noise. Allen sighed in possible relief and definite frustration once the dark figure that had crept up behind him revealed himself. His tall slender shape merging out from behind the trunk of one of the thick trees that provided the path with shade, Cazer Krane barely deigned