Chapter 9
JOHANNA WAS so tired that she felt she could sleep for a week, but she dressed in her outdoor clothes and dragged her weary limbs back into the cold to look for Loesie.
An icy wind had come up that whipped leaves through the street and prised its cold fingers through the gaps in her clothing. Johanna pulled both sides of her cloak together, shivering, wishing she could be inside by the fire.
And yet, despite the destruction and misery that people obviously suffered here, she was glad that she was in Saardam and no longer in a wet field in Florisheim. The combination of rising water and the coming winter would have been utterly miserable. The nosy baroness would have made things worse. Now that she looked back on it, the baroness had been trying to pull Johanna and Roald into h
