81 Matters Of The Heart

A few minutes later, after Gavadiol had assigned watches to all the men in the camp, everyone else who was not on watch simply went to bed. Lara, Ella, and Konstantin in particular, who had been travelling consistently for a while, fell asleep almost as soon as their heads hit their pillows. Gavadiol however found that he could not sleep. Now that he had finally found a moment to rest, his mind almost of its own volition began to go over the events in the river. Nordveka was not going to be an easy nut to crack. He still hadn’t opened the box to know what was in there. But if this first place was anything to go by, then it meant that it would not be an easy job locating the next places they were supposed to go. He had nearly died today. And he just realised that he was in love with Lara Trarko. Perhaps he had always known but when a man was about to face death, there was just a way it made him alive to a lot of perspectives and realities. At last, when he saw that clearly, sleep wa