Chapter 67. The Nomos

Hovar followed her for those three years, without returning to the fortress. For a while he was uncomfortable with the company of the wolves, but then he began to like it. He learned how to use them to his advantage and also to communicate in such a way that they began to accept him as if he were not only one of them, but their leader.

Giovanna managed to hide, not using any of her gifts, repressing them, as they served as Hovar's compass to her location.

She was distracted while talking to a group of Nomos, who knew much more advanced medicine than she could have imagined. She had traveled to the five corners of the earth in search of improving her knowledge and learning from the best healers, but there among those Nomos who still believed in the gods and were their priests, she was learning techniques that would be used many centuries later, as if it were a new discovery.

The Nomos didn't know that she had killed the gods and that, in fact, they only be