Chapter Eight
'End' seemed to have shut down for the night. Alexa crept through the silent, darkened town heading north. Once she was far enough into the woods that she couldn't be seen from the town, she turned east. It wasn't easy picking her way through the trees in the dark, but she went slowly and carefully until her eyes had completely adjusted. When she came to the first of the dirt tracks heading out of the town she paused and listened for a while before scurrying across the open space and into the shelter of the trees on the other side. She wasn't expecting to run into anyone at this hour, but it never hurt to take precautions.
She wanted to get to the trail that the three men and the four females had taken earlier. It had to lead to the place they called The Farm, and she had a
