Cynthia’s POV
Looking up, we could only just see a tiny bit of the full moon shining through the high canopy of the trees. Nothing much had happened so far. We had found a place with low shrubs to set up camp and had managed to get the fire going.
Everything was so calm even Charlie had managed to fall asleep. She was sitting on the ground, with her head on my shoulder, wrapped up in the thermal blanket she had packed.
I wasn’t surprised she had fallen asleep. She was probably tired from spending the day planning all of this. One of the aspects I had envied about Charlie was her smarts. She had more knowledge than me about fighting and defence, and while I knew that she wouldn’t give credit for that to our father, I knew he had played a big part in Charlie becoming the person she was an
