Barrow Fields you're gonna keep my soul, it was yours to have long ago.

Easy did not wait up. Shame kept her heavy paws pounding through the snow, away from the boy and her sister and those dumb things she'd said. He probably thought she was such an idiot. He probably wasn't worried about her at all and just wanted to be led to Dawn.

Everyone wanted Dawn. No one cared about Easy.

The dark girl headed into the hills, leaving all this behind in the dust. She would not be returning to the plateau, but would continue on to the taiga without the rest of her party. With any luck, she would meet up with her sister and brother-in-law before too much time had passed.