THEY’D BEEN TRAVELING for around two hours and the sun was well up when Cherry put the flitter cover down. The wind was invigorating. They were passing through a wide valley that meandered between high hills. Below them was what looked like an ancient, dry river bed, filled with water-rounded boulders.
“Do you think,” Cherry said, “when the Woken and the Guardians see that we’ve all left the settlement to strike out on our own, they’ll come looking for us?”
“I don’t doubt it.”
“And will they be able to find us?”
“They’ll find us for sure. We can’t go far. We don’t have the equipment or the time. If we did, maybe we could hide on the other side of the planet. Then, it might be a long while before they found us. Hiding from them forever isn’t the point though. What we want to do is get o
