Boran left Angkor Thom at dawn, heading northeast.
Jochi had told him the journey to Sairam would take an average person about a week. With his own unnatural pace, however, Boran figured he could cut that down to two or three days.
After half a day’s walk, the landscape grew wilder. The path, worn into the earth by countless travelers, was now flanked by dense forests. Where the trees gave way to plains, vast fields of golden wheat rippled in
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