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Danielle Gunderson, Planet Everis, Outskirts of Feris 5
The cold seeped into my bones through the hard ground where I settled. The thin sheets of silver and black thermal blankets kept me from freezing to death. The food I’d managed to steal before leaving the Touchstone was running low. Me? I could survive on less. If I had to, I could build traps and survive in the wild. I’d done it before. But I had no idea what condition my mate would be in. He’d been blocking me, refusing to let me into his dreams, ordering me to stay away from him.
“As if,” I huffed.
I didn’t dare take off my boots, just shoved them into the bottom of the thin sleeping bag. If I took them off, I’d never get them back on because of all the hiking I’d done. The swelling was so bad in my injured ankle that I could
