Chapter FifteenI was dying to get started.
Harry and Albert treated the entire region as their own personal pantry, and we knew exactly how limited our time was. So we had food, and now we needed soldiers. As soon as Boots was rested, I followed Harry’s directions to the closest town, using my compass to confirm that my heart was perfectly sufficient on its own. I paid attention to the more complicated signals from my heart, and picked up several small gold nuggets along the way. Victoria was not yet bereft of riches.
After seeing the desiccated landscape around Melbourne, I had expected another rain-harvesting town full of smoke and steam and ostentatious metals. To my surprise, most of the metal I saw was in the form of wearable corsets and waistcoats, which was only sensible. Terang w
