Across the Years

Dante arrived on the third day.

Not alone. Isolde beside him, as had been said. Boris driving. They came in two vehicles — Dante and Isolde in the first, two of Dante's trusted men in the second.

Lenora watched them arrive from the farm window.

Dante stepped out and immediately looked around. Not in the way of someone assessing a threat. In the way of someone trying to understand a place they had