Hiding the Evidence

Snowcloud sighed as she looked at the corpses. "They were members of the Waning Moon faction, probably sent to keep an eye on the area around the Soaring Sun camp. That they saw us and recognized me was just bad luck."

Arran gave her a questioning look. "How do you know they weren't sent after you?"

"Because the Waning Moon wouldn't be foolish enough to send weaklings like these after me," she replied. She pointed at the charred body of the young man, then continued, "And that was Saman Tir, a member of the Tir family's younger generation. His father would never send him to confront me — not without five times the backup, at least."

"One of Amaya's cousins?" Arran asked. He still remembered that the Tir family was the main force behind the Waning Moon faction, and that Amaya was one of the family's scions.

"A distant cousin," Amaya confirmed. "I imagine the Tir family won't be happy about this, and his father even less so."