6
It was still dark when Sienna awakened. Her thick cloak was scant protection against the cold stone but for a moment, she lay motionless, listening to Mila’s gentle breath and the deeper sounds of Perry’s snoring in the corner of the cave. Jari lay silent a little further away. They had found the cave by starlight after hours of walking and sunk quickly into sleep the night before, muscles aching from the long trek.
The sound of cloth shifting on stony ground came from the entrance. Sienna could just make out Finn’s faint silhouette. She slowly unwrapped herself, careful not to wake the others and tiptoed out to join him.
It was cold and foggy, the clouds still dense above them but in the distance, the coral fingers of dawn crept over the horizon, the promise of a new day. Sienna sat
