Chapter 56
“Nothing,” Bilk said with a sigh. The big man rounded the end of the log Alara leaned against to find a seat for himself on top of it. Alara folded her letters and put them back in her pocket. “I’m almost certain the western end has been covered by now.”
Alara leaned her head back against the wood, wanting to share in the man’s sigh and disappointment at yet another fruitless day but knowing better than to let herself seem disheartened. The light was trickling down now behind the trees of the Deadwood. Stars had already begun to peek through the fading blue above. Another hour more and night would be fully upon them.
“I think you’re correct,” she said. “We’ll just have to pick another direction for tomorrow.”
“East?”
“I don’t see why not.”
Five days had passed since they’d
