CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
Steel woke early. Too early, even for the usual chorus of bird song. Not that he had really slept. The sky was dark purple with a blanket of stars. Steel looked up at the enormous full moon, and a shiver ran down his spine. The moon had been a bright white the night before; now, it was a dark orange. So dark, it was almost blood red.
Steel thought back to his old nanny, who had been from Scandinavia. A tall blonde woman with broad shoulders and hands like a lumberjack. Despite the fact she had been in her fifties when she was his caregiver, she was still a handsome woman. She had shown Steel pictures of when she was younger. By all accounts, she could have been a model by today’s standards. But she lived on a farm and had to work with the rest of the family. She would o
