CHAPTER NINE
Sophia waited for Kate even when the other girls left, melting off into the fields in ones and twos, heading off to whatever lives they might be able to find for themselves. She pushed down her worry about what might happen if anyone came looking for the slave wagon. If anyone came, she could hide, but she wasn’t going to leave the one spot where she might find Kate again.
Sophia worried as she waited. She worried about the possibility of travelers or watchmen walking by and seeing the wagon. She worried about the smell coming from the corpses of Meister Karg and his thugs, dragged to the side of the road where Sophia and the others had managed to pull them out of sight, looting them for the coin that they had stowed, ready to pay for more girls.
Above all, she worried abou
