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Chapter #19
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They stopped at the first good-looking inn they came to and got a room for the night. They sat in the main room for a while to eat a real meal for the first time in weeks.
Quenum moved a little closer to Matt, whom she was sitting beside at the table, glancing in the direction of a nicely dressed man sitting at the table beside them.
Matt shrugged, thinking nothing of it and continued to eat.
All four of them were quiet, the two girls picking at their food, Yuhed eating quietly, and Matt eating as though he hadn't eaten at all in all the time they had been gone.
"How long are we going to stay here?" Forest asked suddenly, looking up from her meal.
Yuhed thought for a minute. "A few days at least. You girls need to regain your strength and I can't get supplies until tomorrow anyway."
"We can't leave any sooner?" Quenum asked, glancing again at the man at the table beside them.
"No, and even if we could, I wouldn't. I don't want to risk you girls' health. That's what we're trying to make better in the first place."
Quenum nodded and went back to picking at her food, not really hungry or feeling like eating.
-Thank you Beth,- Forest's mind voice rang in her head loudly.
-Forest, she was our twin,- Quenum tried to protest, doing her best to ignore the ringing in her head.
-So?-
Quenum didn't answer, they'd been over this before and she knew she probably wouldn't win.
"Are you okay?" Yuhed asked, looking at Quenum closely.
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just-" she stopped herself before she could complete the sentance.
"It's just what?"
"I'm just tired is all. After we eat I'll go up to the room and go to bed. I'll be alright in the morning."
Yuhed then nodded, satisfyed with the answer. "Then you best be eating."
Forest on the other hand, wasn't satisfyed with the answer. -What's wrong?-
-Nothing, it's just, that man.- Quenum glanced at the man sitting at the table beside them.
-That man?- Matt entered the conversation.
-He's... dirty,- was the only way Quenum could think to explain it.
-Maybe you are tired,- Forest said, looking at her strangly.
-Maybe,- Quenum agreed, -but you're tired too. A lot tired then you're making everyone think. So is Yuhed.-
"I'm done," Quenum said then, out loud, pushing her food away.
Yuhed finished her own meal and then they all went up to the room, the two girls sleeping on one bed, Yuhed on another, and Matt on their bed rolls on the floor.
Just before the two girls drifted off to sleep, Matt's mind voice came to them, fully alert and awake.
-How about we see what town we're going to next?- The three of them awoke late the next morning, sleepy eyed and not wanting to wake up. Matt stoked the fire and got it built up and soon their little room was warm and cheery in the midst of the oncoming winter weather.
"Which way are we heading next?" Matt asked Yuhed.
"East," she replied, not looking up from mending some of their clothes.
"Oh."
"Matt," Forest looked at him reproachfully, "What are you doing in our bed?"
Matt looked around from his seat on the bed beside Quenum. "Umm... sitting here?"
"And just how long have you been just 'sitting here'?"
"Oh, I dunno, since I built up the fire and you two woke up I guess," he replied, failing to see where she was going with this.
Forest just shook her head and dropped the subject.
Chapter #20
Chapter #1
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Chapter #2
Chapter #3
Chapter #4Chapter #5Chapter #6Chapter #7Chapter #8
Chapter #9
Chapter #10
Chapter #11
Chapter #12
Chapter #13
Chapter #14
Chapter #15
Chapter #16
Chapter #17
Chapter #18
Chapter #21
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