When Katelina finished, Jorick rounded up the others and they climbed into the giant car. Torina and Oren sat up front, and the other three were in the back as it had been before. The tension inside the vehicle was thicker than the fog gathering outside, and they all gave in to it. The uncomfortable silence seemed almost like a sixth passenger that was hogging the conversation. The only things that kept it from being unbearable was the muttering of the engine and the swish of the windshield wipers cutting back and forth in their fight with the ever gathering condensation.
Katelina's watch said that only a couple of hours had passed, but the trip to Sorem felt interminably long, and if she thought she'd be happy to see the place she was wrong. It was another small dingy town that looked as
