CHAPTER 16Hendrix led Kendra and the other women through the village. It was so dark that Kendra could only just see Jolene's back ahead as they slipped through small alleyways until they reached the edge of Brodsted Village. But there was no river ahead and she could not even hear the sound of lapping water.
"Where are we?" she whispered as the six gathered in a circle beneath an oak tree.
"We cut across the land to a creek where my boat is hidden," Hendrix replied. "Don't worry. It is only a short distance and I have marked the way."
As they continued on, Kendra noticed small white top twigs every ten paces or so. Without them on the flat terrain, they could be walking anywhere. They skirted fields of crops and finally came to grove of willow trees and a cutting in the land. At the bo
