Chapter 6
I’d survived my first battle. Not too impressive considering I was able to survive being shot point blank, but still, it was something. The other two probably wouldn’t even consider that a battle, but I was going to. It was life threatening, after all. I bet Cray would agree with me.
“Can you feel where he went, Cray?” Starren asked. Cray nodded and headed off north… or was it west?
It didn’t matter. We followed him in silence. I took a deep breath as we walked. Mom had hauled me all over the U.S., but no other place we’d visited had smelled as good as this one. Just being here again brought back memories, picnics and sleeping in our car until a ranger caught us and kicked us out of the park after dark. Good times. At least it had felt that way to a nine-year-old. I’m glad now
