Return to Urik
This chapter is where we finally see the story through Akashia’s eyes, and it makes her way more sympathetic than I expected.
Yohan
Bound and Smuggled Out of Urik
Pavek wakes up hog-tied inside a handcart rolling over terrible pavement.
His wrists and ankles are bound together behind his back and anchored to the cart itself. His limbs are stretched to the point of screaming. His hands and feet are completely numb. There is straw thrown over him, a cloth blindfold over his eyes, and the cold air of a night outside the walls of Urik.