The way to the village was long. Teru and the children walked all day. The children, the three girls who"d first helped Teru, as well as two boys, learned the signs Teru used when she needed to stop for a rest or to relieve herself. They were bright children, used to looking out for each other and themselves, used to different levels of ability from one another. It took a long time just to get through the city on the first day. This continent was so strange to Teru. She couldn"t stop gaping at things, and half of the things she saw had no meaning to her. She couldn"t place them at all.
The city itself was a sea of smooth lines, unlike any lines in nature. Cube-like buildings of many floors rose up from the streets, the levels stacked on one another with an inhuman gaze. Or there were spi
