Chapter 6
Each morning and each night, Cinder ran over to Silver’s cottage to train. She learned that her wool shoes were fine for cleaning floors but not so fine for running. Silver gave her leather shoes with thick soles that helped, but she also cautioned that a survivor needed to be self-reliant. Comfortable shoes wouldn’t always be available to Cinder.
So Silver made Cinder run to the cottage in the predawn hours in her bare feet. It would toughen her feet, she said. But she allowed Cinder to run back home after the sunrise with her new shoes, which was a huge relief to Cinder.
During the day, she would squeeze in all her chores at her stepmother’s house as fast as she could. There was a never-ending list of things to do, and her stepfamily were constantly adding to it. But none of
