~ SASHA ~
"Can you lead them back to the village if I get them moving?" Sasha asked Kyelle quickly.
The woman nodded, her eyes fierce and darting to all the faces around them. If she'd been in her bird, Sasha suspected she would have puffed up her feathers—and screeched at something.
"Get them as far as the village, then stop to rest and see how they're doing. We can take all day getting them to the City if we need to, but I want them away from Nick and Patty as quickly as possible.
"Lhars, can you run ahead and arrange a fire—a bonfire, something big enough that they can all gather around. They haven't seen the village before, remember. So they won't be expecting it. We'll tell them it's just a rest stop, okay?"
Lhars nodded quickly, but Sasha was already turning back to Kyelle.
