Chapter Twenty
What had she done?
After her full breakfast of air pie and wind pudding, Jules decided she needed a second helping of fresh air. She pulled on clothes that weren’t her own and left out of the front door of a house that wreaked of man, to walk across foreign soil that felt so distant from her homeland.
In reality, it was only a thirty-minute walk through the fields of Vance Ranch to reach the boundary line that separated it from the Verona Commune. The green pastures of the cattle ranch turned from green to brown the further she moved from east to west. Only to turn green again, the closer she came to her home.
The small cabin she shared with her sister was settled at the edge of the property. Her mother had chosen that part of the land because the soil was dryer there, n
