Chapter 5
We have a plan. It’s Alden’s plan, but
because he has the most to lose and it sounds like it’ll work, I go
along with it.
He’s leaving for the front tonight.
While I said goodbye to the life I used to lead, he was calling his
second in command to see that their unit left the base in the
morning. Alden and I would already be on the road by then, almost
eight hours ahead of them and that much closer to the front. That
much closer to finding Tomas.
I walk the three blocks to Alden’s
quarters as planned, head down and chin tucked into my collar,
watching the sidewalk move away beneath my feet until I feel a
little woozy and the concrete threatens to loom up and smack me in
the face. Damn equilibrium.
I haven’t been the same since that day
we ran maneuvers eighteen mon
