10 Jeff Carter was leading the parade of one hundred fifty souls away from the transport pod. He had chosen a diagonal course that would take them toward the river and downstream from the pod. He had been one of the hunters, under Phylicia, but now was leading those that chose to strike out on their own and live free of Phylicia and Palmer. Carter had met Murdock when he first came to the pod, but he wasn’t sure he could trust him. Phylicia and Palmer had left a bad taste in his mouth and he had decided to leave some time ago. What he hadn’t planned on was “The Night of Revelations”, as he called it, and leading this many people into the unknown. He had heard Murdock’s warning and the restrictions on where they could go, and he chose to obey it. He’d heard rumors of what had happened to

