Allixon slept on one side with Travis and the other with Miranda. Clarice snuggled up alone, ignoring requests to join them, and Jolene extended her body as near to the warmth of the fire as she could without getting burned. When Allixon fell asleep, Luke was sitting alone against the rock wall, his gaze fixed on the cave through which their raft had traveled. He had the look of a man standing guard, but Allixon had no notion what he was guarding against. And she was too weary to be concerned. If she had survived the storm's fury just to be murdered in her sleep by an unknown assailant, then be it.
She fell into a tired but fitful sleep, alternating between visions of sinking beneath the sea again, clawing for the surface as she sank further and deeper, and dreams of Gweneth standing on t
