Chapter SevenAlaric sipped at the coffee his mother gave him and watched Riley sort through the package that Jordan had brought from back east. In a modern world where most of them were used to standard mail delivery and cell phones, it was frustrating to live the way they were, with no phone service, no internet, and no mail service. They were lucky to get anything at all, really. Getting in and out of the area was getting more difficult all the time. Once the snow started, it would be largely impossible. The box contained letters for various people in the camp along with a few mementos and other little packages, plus news from outside their secluded little valley. There were stacks and stacks of newspapers from the last few weeks, with headlines that ranged from wild speculation to ala

