chapter twenty-one; destination painfully reached
"Can you walk?" Mara asked, shining the lantern directly in his face to see his reaction. This only made Poe groan as shut his eyes, the brightness too intense after being in the darkness for awhile. They both decided moving fast instead of waiting for sunrise was best in order to get to the base as quickly as they could. Their water was running low and they had no idea when the wild monsters would get hungry again. So Mara had climbed down from her spot and packed up what little they had for a camp. She repeated her question again, moving the lantern away from his face when she realized it only hindered him, "Can you walk? Is your head feeling any better?" Poe nodded slightly, still squinting from the flash, "Yeah, yeah I can. Which way are we headed?" Mara took the lead while holding
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