Chapter 11
The moon chased the sun in a never-ending cycle of light fading to darkness and darkness brightening to light. The trio woke up, ate breakfast together, and scavenged the surrounding land for food. Nick and Aaron played Battleship or a new game they made up involving dried up bottles of nail polish and windmill trinkets that they moved across the squares of the area rug in a complicated flurry of rules that never allowed either of them to move all of their pieces to the other side. Lareina read books about medieval royalty, detectives solving mysteries, men and women fighting wars, and lawyers finding evidence just in time to save clients from a life of imprisonment. In the evenings, she walked a half mile to the nearest train tracks and watched until dark, but not one train pa
