Chapter 291

“Why do I feel we’re not going to like this.” Carmen butts in. “Because you’re not. But needs must, and this whole thing is bigger than you three. Now hush, more walk, less talk. I need some headspace to figure some things out, as I did not sleep one wink last night. Ma head’s weary. Now shhhhh… get going.” Leyanne gestures for us to move again, rather bossily. A lot of harsh hand waving and a finger to her lips to silence our chatter. We don’t like it, but we fall obediently back in line and quicken our steps, retracing our path from last night effortlessly as we can pick up our own scent to follow back. A sense of lighter relief that we are going back to our familiar truck and will be turning around and heading home very soon. It doesn’t take long to see the truck ahead in the clearing where we abandoned its poor self. With a few more feet to cross, we come out at it where we left it last night, and Meadow unlocks it before jumping in to reverse out of the ditch we almost got it stuc