Blacktail Deer Plateau did you really ever think I gave a damn about you

Nieve leaned into her mother's touch while the pack contemplated the smoke over the mountains. She wasn't interested in that. Looking at it sent a chill through her belly that reached frosted fingers for her bones, so she chose not to watch. She let her blue eyes rove across the plateau instead, over trees and browning bushes and dying grasses.

Were they safe here, safer than they would have been in Monolith Forest? Nieve didn't know. She sensed that it wasn't the right time to ask that question, but it would come up later, when the earth's shaking worsened. For now the girl fell in stride with Erzulie, following her into the woods with a long look at Raleska and Aningan.

What were they to do now but wait?