It was strange to go to sleep in Aleks’ tent - it wasn’t too different to the one I had used for years, and when I woke up to the sounds and smells of other people outside my heart raced and I felt a jolt of fear. I lay there for the longest time as the smell of people cooking breakfast and the sounds of the group packing things up ready to leave surrounded me, but it took a long time for it to hit me that these were different people and I was not going to have to face Luc or Gaella when I emerged.
When I finally left the tent and began to help pack everything up I tried my best to blend in and figure out as much as I could about my new pack and the people I would be traveling with.
There must have been forty other people, and this was only half of Ares’ pack. I was used to a pack with t
