Chapter Five
Over The River And Through The Woods
“Poppie! Please don’t leave me!” Kerrie twisted her head around, watching Poppie’s white mare veer off and gallop away toward the east.
“Oh, Kerrie, how can I come back? I can’t steer my mare, she’s going where she wants to go. Kerrie, I’m so scared—help me!”
Lissa’s chestnut mare broke away to the left, thundering north across the brushy heath.
“Mistress! Please! Don’t leave me all alone! I’m afraid to be alone and lost!”
Lissa glanced back over her shoulder. “I’m as helpless as you are, Kerrie. We’re all at the doubtful mercy of our horses. I’m very sure that Shawe has been training our mares for the last month to take us to some very dreadful places when it gets dark. The sun’s setting, and then all three of us are going to be scar
