Chapter 91: Adelaide.

We don’t ride much before we get to the first town.

Rhys has a cloak over his face, the same deep green hue that his clothes are and I expect that I'll be given a cloak too, but I never get one.

A cloak is the least of my worries.

I look around and my eyes are wide open in fascination. Cain wasn’t lying when he said there was not a speck of technology here. I peer at stone huts and brick walls, structures made of mud and hay, and just a general lack of anything remotely modern.

“Wow.”

The town is deserted as we pass through but I notice wooden windows being opened just a bit. I catch eyes of every color widen when they see me and widen even more when they land on the rider of our horse.

Rhys is an imposing form behind me, and I try not to lean into him too much. I would have been comfortable sitting at the back, but Rhys said sitting this way would get the right rumors to spread faster.

Before we even get to the capital, rumors should have announced our arrival.

I chuckle at th