Chapter 20
Kenna
The readjustment of their caravan happened largely without her input. Even when Dakota and Terrell left her to speed up the process, she didn’t join them. But she couldn’t stay next to Katya for long. The pain of that one loss, among a sea of death, proved too much to bear. She let her go. Covering her face with a blood-soaked jacket, she hesitated only an instant before turning her back on the body.
Like a military chaplain, Ken wandered around the battlefield, inspecting each dead face to see which ones deserved her attention. Most of them were strangers, painted in camouflage and wearing mix-matched clothing. Others she couldn’t help but see as traitors. They were dead because they turned on her. They had sworn their loyalty to their young leader, but at the first si
