Gabby
Dangerous days turn into dark nights on the river, but it"s the quiet treatment I can"t stand much longer. It shouldn"t bother me because this is nothing new from Lee. He"s usually the strong and silent type, but this seems more pointed. He"s deliberately not speaking, which is why I"m so relieved when the captain comes into the room. He"s been keeping his distance from us because he"s a Texan through and through. He obeyed Adrian"s orders to get us to St. Louis, but he doesn"t like it. To him, we"re just the Rebels that attacked his city. We killed people, some of which he might have known. We killed his “prophet”.
“We"re here,” he says gruffly.
I look out the small window and all I see is the dark water.
“Then why haven"t we docked?” I ask.
“St. Louis is under quarantine,” he
