Mallory smiled at Ninette. “We’re sure. You’ve got the lowest level so it makes sense that you have the XP.” She interrupted Ninette’s thanks. “Was Jenet happy to be left in Longmeadow?”
“She seemed pleased to see the village again,” Ninette said.
“She kept talking about all the changes,” Esben said.
Mallory tried to imagine what it would be like to return to the world a century later. She couldn’t. She linked her fingers with Ryan. All she could think was that there were so many people that probably no longer lived.
The journey back to the encampment was quiet and while everyone loaded up the gear, struggling to find places for all of it, Ninette used a tree leech mist on the large jar of tree leeches. Danae also stowed her short bow on the wagon since she wouldn’t need it now she had
