Chapter 1The next day, they saw no one. The following day gave them a man on a motorcycle who didn’t stop to talk, and a half-dead old woman by the side of the road. She seemed confused as to where she was. Disoriented. But Ken got the impression that the woman had been left by her group, seen as a burden. They gave her some water.
The woman couldn’t walk, and their horses couldn’t carry another person. Ken asked Yuuki to look for wild berries. Once she was gone, she did the humane thing and shot the poor woman in the head.
Yuuki wasn’t pleased. She knew it was better than leaving her to die of thirst or hunger, but she didn’t like that they killed an innocent person. She thought that the woman might have family somewhere. And she was a little pissed that Ken didn’t discuss it with her f
