Chapter 29

By the end of the day Seline was exhausted and did not think that she would ever be able to eat pork again. She also smelled awful as the meat had gone rancid and that was why Henry was allowed to use it to practice on. She needed a bath. She stunk terribly. She definitely did not want Will to see her this way. She would have to sneak down to the river to wash when everyone was at dinner. She got in the dinner line as fast as she could and brought her food back to the tent and placed it inside. She grabbed what she would need to wash up and headed off through the trees to the edge of the river. She really would like to wash her uniform, but she only had one so she would not be able to go naked while it was washed and dried.

When she got to the river she found a secluded place that was surrounded by reeds. She figured that she would not be seen and she would be able to hide under the low hanging tree branches that had lots of leaves. After she had taken the uniform off near the edge o