Once they heard a helicopter overhead, and he dropped to the ground pulling her with him. They lay in the tall grass, barely breathing, as they listened to the machine passing overhead.
“They know we’re gone,” he said grimly, as he helped her up.
She shivered, although the sun had risen and it heralded a beautiful, temperate day. What if they found them? What would they do to Joaquin? And what had happened to the brave Firebloom? Her sister she had never known. Renewed rage burned against the Seniors and the Republic.
She smelled the ocean before she saw it, heard the boomings of the water. She had never been here in body. Only in other people’s dreams. The sight startled her. It was so grand; there was a tight feeling in her stomach as she stared at the delineation where the land ended
