Chapter 18They walked for nearly an hour and a half, braving the twilight to make it a little bit farther. Only once it became dark enough to be dangerous did Adam agree to stop. Many people didn’t erect their tents. Some didn’t even eat dinner. They unrolled their bedrolls and sleeping bags and bivouacked right there. A few gathered around the campfire and ate and talked quietly.
When Adam joined them by the fire, sitting down beside Zach, he found Korrie talking about the early days of the colony and her fellow founders, many of whom had died today. A renegade she might have been, but those people had been her friends. She’d been the firmest believer in Zach’s prediction, but to see it come true so horribly must have shaken even her.
“The day we finished the atmosphere processing, that
