Ten
The thin man with the gray hair captivated her attention from the moment he met them at the fairy pools. His name was Jed. There was something about him, an unpredictability of sorts, a shell hard to crack. While he drove them through this island in-between the skies, Rahab studied him yet again from the back seat. She sat squeezed between Caleb, John, and David while Björn and Annie sat at the front. Caleb felt too close to her. Why was she so aware of his skin against hers? He seemed so foreign, yet so familiar. She somehow longed to take his hand in hers and bathe in those memories that connected them. But he had been cold to her since their reunion in Glencoe.
The car was packed, and the air grew thin.
The drive up to Skye was uneventful.
Annie embarked on that journey with the
