Twenty Four

The rest of lunch was enjoyable, and I couldn't help but notice that everyone who came over to meet me was so friendly and warm. When we finally got up to begin the tour they said they'd take me on, I was feeling so bouyantly happy that I couldn't stop smiling, and Cole and Finn were returning it.

They led me out through the large main doors, to a large stone-paved path with the most incredible views. I could see from here that we truly were near the top of one of the mountains, with the packhouse built into the side, above all the other buildings. The wide path - broad enough for a large car - wound back and forth, in front of other buildings that were built on lower levels.

They pointed out their medical and training buildings on the level below, both of them almost as large as the packhouse, and a slightly taller building in between them which housed some of the single pack members. The level below that was larger, a rare patch of flatter land there, which seemed to form their pa