I didn't know for certain that it was him. I had no proof of it and I wasn't going to ask because asking felt like the kind of thing that required more words than I had available right now. But nothing happened on this land tonight without his knowledge or his order and the shack had been standing this morning and now it wasn't and those two facts sat next to each other in a way that was hard to look at directly.
I turned away.
Not because I couldn't look at it. Because I'd looked long enough and there was nothing left there that I needed to see and the horse under us was moving forward and forward was the only direction that made any sense right now.
We passed through the tree line and Ashcrest disappeared behind us.
I didn't look back again.
The forest was dark and quiet around us,
