CHAPTER 35
They’d walked miles, skirting the chasm, searching for a place narrow enough to cross. They’d gone through most of their food and had pared down everything else so the remaining supplies and goods would fit onto one of the two travoises. They used the other to pull the girls over hills and rough terrain. They decided when they reached another plateau, and it looked like the girls could make it the rest of the way without a struggle, they could break the second sled into firewood.
With his rifle across his back, Chaco pulled the one travois, piled with goods, behind him. Margo walked alongside, pulling the other sled with the girls and their remaining food. Now and again, an aftershock hit and clumps of dirt and rocks tumbled down the mountain toward them. One rock hit Olivia a
