The walk out to the barn was the longest I'd ever had to take. I had questions, but I couldn't voice them through the knot of emotion twisted in my throat.
First, the package was taken, the sole source of money. And now maybe my horse, the only means I had to deliver the package, whether fake or not. The universe played cruel jokes. Even if I was successful tomorrow getting money we needed, it wouldn't matter if I didn't have Hellbreath to go into Margin for food. We wouldn't survive the winter.
But even more important than that was I couldn't lose my girl. We'd found each other while I'd been teaching myself to shoot with a bow and arrow on the side of the cabin when I was about eleven. She'd wandered up from the direction of Margin, and we just stood there, sensing each other. I'd kno
