In the Distance, Riders

Ma made it seven days before waiting got the better of her. Dael was inspecting the hedges between his field and Bayard’s - his wife and aged father were tending the land in his stead - when he caught movement out of the corner of his eye. He turned and saw Ma running full tilt, faster than she’d ever run before, toward the end of the hedge, toward the road down which Cerdic and Da had gone.

Dael called after her. She was mad – she couldn’t run all the way to the shore herself.

And then he saw, in the distance, riders.