Chapter Thirty-Six

Just on the other side of the mountains, the Domineers were as restless as the Ravennites while they patrolled the borders of their encampment. Caine was becoming increasingly anxious, and that was never a good sign. Ever since the anticipation of the storm, Caine’s uneasiness continued to grow until it began to affect the rest of them as well. They never had so little contact with Ramon’s camp as they did the past few months, and the silence was deafening.

Most of them were certain that the storm smply delayed the messengers they were expecting from Ramon, but Caine was fearful that his message was never received at all, and that the Ravennites would be on their doorstep before they knew it. He ordered the Domineers to patrol the woods surrounding the plain at all times, but beyond that, Caine seemed to keep to himself, as if there was something he was not telling the rest of them.