Heart of the Hunter

Please enjoy Chapter 20.

Thoughts of grief at the loss of her beloved swamp were temporarily set aside as she breathed in relief. The stink of war was still in her nostrils, the scent of her dying Gnaeltongues, the smell of the mercenaries’ sweat on the battlefield, even the stinking walking corpse that was her K’uun. All the scents faded away in the cleansing icewastes air.
Except for one, and it wasn’t really a scent as much as it was a feeling. The maddening feeling that the Greenward still hunted her, still sought her, was still hoping for a confrontation even though she had managed to throw an entire warband of Gnael and her new champion in his path. The Treekeeper’s errand boy was inexorable.
He was also standing just down the hill from her.
“Greetings, Uline.” Cinhil said. A double-recurve hunting bow loaded with a war-arrow creaked as he pulled it back.

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