Chapter 4
We bundled up and headed out into the cold, quickly darkening evening. The streetlights were coming on one by one, their light shuttered to shine down on the road and not up into the sky. I had never seen an airplane pass overhead, but surely something must at some point. Satellites up in space, for instance. I wondered what Villmark looked like from up there. Or did the spells hide it, even from satellite cameras?
"This way," Nilda said, pulling me out of my thoughts with a tug on the sleeve of my parka. I followed her and Kara along the road away from the center of town, south to the public gardens. We followed a path through canvas-wrapped and snow-covered hedges, across the gardens and past the greenhouses to an A-framed building that stood alone on the far side.
It looked
