Rowan walked until she reached the end of the forest, climbed a barbed wire fence onto a country lane, then stood and looked around herself, trying to get her bearings. She hadn’t thought much past actually getting away, and now that she had, she needed to think of somewhere to go.
She realised that she would need some money if she was going to get anywhere fast and even better would be a few changes of clothes. Should she go back to her flat? She looked back towards the forest, wondering how much time she had before someone started to look for her.
The chaos caused by the fire would take a while to sort out, and then it may take a bit longer for Perin to notice that she wasn’t anywhere in the compound. Surely she had time to go back to he
