It was dark and she was alone in a very strange place. The look of the clear-cut forest had been unearthly; stumps spread out in all directions, dotting the landscape, leaving the area looking like the surface of some strange moon. The throngs of people leaving the walled city had thinned out, and she felt less paranoid that she was being followed. But as there were fewer and fewer people around her she saw more and more danger in the few men who remained.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Three
It was dark and she was alone in a very strange place. The look of the clear-cut forest had been unearthly; stumps spread out in all directions, dotting the landscape, leaving the area looking like the surface of some strange moon. The throngs of people leaving the walled city had thinned out, and she felt less paranoid that she was being followed. But as there were fewer and fewer people around her she saw more and more danger in the few men who remained.