Finest Servant - Chapter 563

... s easily as a child's face. When they set out, it was clearly the calm of sunset, but after riding for just a couple of hours, a drizzling rain started to fall. Rain on the grasslands differed from that on the plains; without mountains or valleys to obstruct it, rain fell like pillars, stinging the face as it struck. The winds on the grassland were erratic, howling with wild abandon, tossing the mist and rain this way and that, sometimes east, sometimes west. A heavy blanket seemed to cover the ...