Chapter 30
“Caaw!”
I woke to a beak in my face. It was morning. I was alive. There was a raven sitting on top of my head.
I pushed myself erect, or tried to. My hands barely obeyed me. I couldn’t feel my fingers as they slid across slick plastic and dumped me back into the watery bottom of the boat.
“Caaw!”
Where was I? Why was I so tired? Exhaustion cupped me like a pea-soup fog, obscuring my memory of the past and plans for the future. All I knew was that I was alone in a way I’d never been previously. My entire body felt hollow. The only solution seemed to be descending back into the peaceful oblivion of sleep.
Adena had other priorities. She flapped her wings, took to the air, circled a bit to my right but close enough for me to see her without turning my head more than a fractio
