Exiles in Time (The After Cilmeri Series) by Sarah Woodbury

Author:Sarah Woodbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Historical Romance, medieval, prince of wales, time travel romance, middle ages, Historical, wales, after cilmeri, time travel fantasy, Time Travel
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Callum

Cassie and Callum spent the next hour hiking along the loch, looking for a boat Callum could borrow. They found one that would suit him, finally, a mile along the shore to the west. It had been pulled up among the trees and looked very much like a Native American canoe, complete with two paddles. Cassie eyed it, her mouth working in amusement. “Great minds think alike, I guess,” she said.

They carried it back along the shore in preference to getting in it and paddling right away. They both agreed that the sound of their movements on the water would carry to the fort more easily than if they traveled most of the way there on land. Eventually, however, they reached a patch of thicker undergrowth and were forced to get into the canoe.

Hugging the shore, they paddled to a point a few hundred yards shy of the fort, though around a point of land so that anyone standing on the shore within the palisade would have no chance of seeing them. There, they left the canoe. Next, they checked on the horses, moving them deeper into the woods to a spot where they hoped they’d be safe. They’d forsaken the trail from the start, thinking it too open, and on the return journey reached a point fifty yards above it. It was only then, near the overlooking piece of granite, that they encountered a patrol from the fort.

Cassie spotted them first. “Get down!” She tugged on the back of his surcoat. Since the day had remained hot, he’d left his cloak with the horses. He wished it made sense to take off his armor too, since it was like wearing a personal sauna. At times, Callum wondered why it hadn’t fused to his skin yet since he wore it constantly. The water in the loch had looked inviting, but despite his offhand comment to Cassie about swimming, the last thing he wanted was another fully-clothed soaking in a medieval body of water.

Cassie and Callum hustled behind some bracken. Three men strolled below them, one in front, hacking at the underbrush desultorily with a stick, and two behind. They chatted with one another, apparently unconcerned about being spotted. If this was a patrol, they weren’t doing a very professional job of it. They seemed to be headed back to the fort.

“The MacDougall is not going to be happy when he hears of this,” the man in the lead said.

“How is he going to hear of it unless you tell him?” one of other men said. “You’re the one who saw the flash. We aren’t going to say anything if you don’t.”

Cassie looked at Callum and nodded. She didn’t need to say—the scope—for both of them to know what flash the man had seen. The patrol moved on, their footsteps plodding away down the hill towards the fort. Cassie and Callum let the sound of their movements fade completely before they moved again.

“We’re going to have to be more careful,” she said.

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