Chapter 716: Someone Tends This Place
The wall was only as high as Leon's hand, but he had not seen anything like it since leaving the foreign camps.
His second body crouched beside the water. Flat stones had been fitted together along the lower edge of the slope, holding a shallow stream against the hillside. Mud filled the smaller gaps. Where one stone had split, another had been pressed against it from the outside.
Water ran past the repair without escaping.
Leon followed the channel with his eyes. It curved behind a shoulder of rock and disappeared beneath hanging grass.
At the spring, his original body set down its cup.
"What is it?" Seraphine asked.
"Water going somewhere it shouldn't."
She waited.
"There's a channel," Leon said quietly. "Built along a slope. I'm going to follow it."
Seraphine glanced toward the closed flap. "Carefully."
