Anneleigh did not return to Thalin Tor as
instructed, but instead continued to search for the others. She was beginning to lose hope when she
heard scuffling from behind one of the large gravestones in a cemetery she was
investigating.
“Oh thank the Vigil you are here,
Anneleigh!” cried Dame Levitia Voyla when Anneleigh rounded the stone. “I only pray you are not too late.”
“What has happened,” Anneleigh said as she
knelt to address the gash on Volya’s leg, “Where are the others?”
“Don’t worry about my wounds, madam! Captian Ledisko is here in this cemetery,
buried in a shallow grave!”