Chapter 34: The Second Flight
POV: Elowen Hart
By the time the sun came up, we were miles away from the coast.
The bus stopped twice during the night. At the first stop, a man got on and sat three rows ahead of me without looking my way. At the second stop, an elderly woman with a shopping bag full of bread and oranges took the seat across the aisle. She smiled at me and I smiled back. The smile felt strange on my face, like a muscle I had forgotten how to use.
Greywood appeared through the morning mist. It was a small and quiet town, the kind of place where no one asked personal questions because no one cared enough to ask, everyone was going about their business. The town has one main street with a bakery, a hardware store, and a post office. Side streets lined with old houses and ol
