Bound to the Sovereign Alpha
At the front of the column rode Soren and Valerie, their mounts picking their way carefully across the slick, black ice lining the cliffside trail.
Soren rode a massive, dark-coated Northern warhorse—a creature bred in the high tundra, with broad hooves and a heavy, matted mane that caught the falling ice. Beside him, Valerie rode a slender silver stallion whose breath puffed in rapid, rhythmic plumes against the freezing air.