Kaz Chapter 04
Argan the Warrior #3
Before dawn, they left the remains of Blue Eagle village. The shaman walked close by Saqqarah’s side, letting her take his arm as needed when the terror threatened to overcome her. As they passed out of the village he again wore the eagle mask. Argan assumed he wore it thus to frighten away evil spirits that might accost them on the trail. Whatever the purpose, he had yet to see the man’s face other the uncommon beard. At the midway point they came to a fork in the trail at which they split into two groups, with the shaman leading half the men and the girl toward home. The remainder, along with Argan and Kaz, followed the other fork as it showed clear sign that it was the path along which Kla’kene’s warband had fled. A mile down that trail they entered a wide grassy meadow. The trail quickly narrowed to a single file track that ended completely a dozen paces in then terminated in an uninterrupted wall of waist high grass.
“This is a very …
