Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time 11)
Knife of Drea on Dry Grass The sun, cli, stretched Galad’s shadow and those of his three armored companions ahead of theht through the forest, dense with oak and leatherleaf, pine and sourgurowth He tried to keep hisThe day was silent save for the thud of their horses’ hooves No bird sang on a branch, no squirrel chittered Too quiet for the tih the forest held its breath This had been abefore A, and bits of ancient paving stone sometile farn of human life now besides thees in the region dwindled, and the fabled lost es that began only a fewin that direction promised rain by afternoon if their slow advance continued A red-winged hawk quartered back and forth along the border of the trees, hunting the fringes As he hies The iven Ea he had a helhten for excuse Instead he had to be content with re-buckling his sword belt, pretending that it had been sitting wrong There had been no point to wearing ar went as he hoped, he would have had to remove breastplate and mail in any case, and if it went badly, armor would have provided little more protection than his white coat