Chapter 27: Pursuit
Between charging inefficiencies, river monster showdowns, and getting lost a half-dozen times already (we tend to realize only when the road dead-ends), I’m pretty sure whatever extra margin we had from pursuit has shrunk to nothing.
But we have to be close now. How many more mountains could there really be before we hit the coast?
Still, I can’t stop checking behind us. We’ve stopped waiting for the bike to charge, taking turns pushing it when it runs down, even in the rain. And its not just pursuit from Nine Peaks I have to worry about. My nightmares are catching up.
The dead of Refuge haunt my sleep and half of my waking hours, too. Cadence and Ravel take turns talking to keep me focused—which would work better if they could actually hear one another. Whatever dr
