Ella shivered as she finished the last of the preparations that she could for the night. The wind had picked up until it was howling. The snow was falling steadily now and had begun to stick. This was going to be a difficult night.
The first thing she had done was pack and wrap the wound on Ty’s head. Jayden had slipped a poultice into the bag as well. Mallory or Thomas must have given it to her. After figuring out how Ty’s sleeping pallet worked, she had tucked him inside it.
Sliding back out of the thin fabric lean-to, she had set to work gathering as much firewood as she could. There was quite a bit down near the river so she had collected and piled it near the fire pit. Her gaze continued to wander between the mountains in the northwest and the sky. Finally, the growing darkness and
