Tamrip keep
“It is daymeal time. Where do you think they are?” a-Carrab asked his wife between mouthfuls.
“They took plenty of food with them. So they are probably sitting somewhere chewing on dried capar meat trying to figure out what to say to you when they return.”
a-Carrab laughed and refocused on his daymeal. Piper disliked having to lie to her husband but what attractive alternative did she have. None. If she told him he was likely to follow them. And enough time had not passed for them to be adequately far away. He might just catch them and may very well persuade them to come back. Besides it is not like they were dead or gone forever. And she had not chased them away. They had gone of their own free will. He would see them again, eventually.