Chapter 159

• Just a few hours left before Anna became a maid again, wasn’t it? It all became a giant blur as they mounted their horses again and took off into the growing winds. An unsettling feeling shifted in her stomach, more than it had before. Perhaps it was due to the fact that they were closer than before, another half day or so and they’d be there.
• The ride was silent and not as urgent, as if all of the energy had dissolved long ago and they were left with the anticipation. They rode the horses in a normal gallop through the snow rather than push them as they had been before. The fog had grown so much, she almost couldn’t see some of the guards that had ridden ahead.
• A shape blocked their path up ahead, they all slowed to a stop right before it. Anna squinted her eyes and saw that it looked like a man bundled up—but that couldn’t be so. He would have been frozen to death and she did not need to see another dead body. One of the rogues slid off their horse and went to see what it was.