Chapter Two
A few miles further on, they came across something Kimberley had not been expecting at all. The path went straight through a narrow break in a high chain-link fence. The fence stretched as far as she could see, which wasn’t really all that far into the woods in either direction.
“What the hell is this?” she asked nobody in particular.
“Oh, hey!” Cat piped up. “A fence! This must mark the boundary line.”
“What boundary line?” Barbara huffed as she caught up to them. Kimberley realized that she’d been unconsciously walking faster to try to get out of range of Cat’s constant stream of chatter. Cat had kept up easily. She seemed to have an endless supply of high, crackling energy. Barbara had tried to keep up, but always lagged a pace or two or ten behind.
“Easy.” Cat smiled,
