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The sun wasn't quite up yet, but it was just light enough to make out the faint shapes of the forest floor. With a small pile of wood already chopped ...

In a split second, Caspar was gone and standing at the back of the wagon again. There was an edge of panic in his voice as he asked what happened, ...

When he woke to the cold pines overhead, Caspar jolted upright with a sharp pang of panic in his chest. He felt lost, in the wilds. Everything ached from carrying ...

Caspar didn't sleep. The few hours everyone else used to rest dragged on. Then it felt like no time had passed at all once they all reconvened at dawn. They ...

From the residential streets, the palace walls were still visible over the tops of houses as they walked. They kept a fair, steady distance for now. Hild tied her hair ...

Once Mel and Caspar excused themselves, Bo jumped in with a question about any cream in the soup. Ava was apologetic when he explained away the disruption with an extreme ...

Aaron led everyone through an entryway, then veered left into a moderately-sized dining area. He mumbled something along the lines of, "Get comfortable if you can," and promptly disappeared into ...

Tucked away in the trees between the walls of Hope and King's Peak, they set up in another bunker not too unlike the first. They unpacked the wagon by torchlight, ...

Each morning, they broke camp and took to the road again by 7 AM. To account for the children, Robin who walked for the most part, Caspar, and the horses, ...

With her brother, Mel, and Bo all on Caspar during his stress-- and partially drug-- induced breakdown, Hild sat back down at the table in the infirmary, where she left ...

The light blotted out so only shadows danced before his eyes. Caspar was floating in the dark, cold. The dampened sounds of a current filled his ears. He was in ...

The urgency and utter panic when James yelled through the trees pushed Hild to run, full speed in an instant. Not once had he sounded like that in her company. ...

With Bo, Raj, and Raya at base now, the kitchen felt like it was bursting at the seams. Stepping in, Caspar stumbled over apologies as he narrowly avoided bumping poor ...

Caspar woke to the cot shifting slowly under an added weight on the edge. He shot upright, biting back a groan when the room spun and his shoulder seized up. ...

Standing out in the woods after lunch, Caspar found the tree with the notch in it. Eir shook her mane and stood patiently beside him. His head spun from the ...