Sliding into the UTV with Dawn and Maree, they rode just a short distance to a group of trainees practicing nearer to the line of towering evergreen trees. Maree had parked the vehicle directly under them in a shaded area. As Gabriella looked up at the bows of green above her head and breathed in their earthy smell, her chest stirred with a sudden urge to go into the forest. And not only that, her mind swirled with the idea to run fast enough through the thicket to invite the wind to pull through her hair and stock her lungs with the delicious evergreen scent.
Dawn snapped her attention. “I think this group will be our last delivery. We’re nearly out of water.” She nodded back to the trunk.
Gabriella hopped out of the vehicle, rounding to the back. She held her hands out and
