Chapter Seventeen
Emma didn’t elaborate on what she meant by that. Well, she would have, but I wanted to go back to the others and make sure they were still all right before she told me what the message was. I didn’t feel safe talking with her away from the others like this, even though there didn’t seem to be any enemies in the forest right now.
So I led Emma back to the camp, where I found that Ivan had apparently returned sometime between my departure and arrival, and was in the process of making a campfire to roast the three squirrels he had somehow caught. When the others saw Emma, they looked alarmed and worried for a second before I quickly explained who Emma was. Then they relaxed, though Triplet still kept a careful eye on her; then again, Triplet was always very suspicious of p
