This Vicious Dream (Kingdom of Death #1)

Madinia

We travel through the disputed territory for three days. The evidence of death and pain is everywhere—from the destroyed, abandoned villages, to the children who stare at us as we ride by, eyes hollow, limbs thin.

We grab a few hours of sleep each night, both of us committed to closing the distance between us and Kyldare’s soldiers.

“I want to renegotiate,” I say on the third day, after we’ve passed through a village where only the dead remain, corpses picked clean by the animals. Eamonn disappeared yesterday, but Calysian doesn’t seem at all worried. Apparently, he comes and goes as he pleases.