Chapter 69

EZRA

"Are you sure?" I asked Anissa as I fed another handful of sticks to the fire. She and her sister were sitting on the opposite side, their expressions serious. The rest of our group were gathering our things and taking down most of the camp in the late morning light. Everything except for what Benji and his daughter, and the twins now, too, would need for another day or two.

Anissa nodded. "Yes, Tessa and I have decided we would like to stay with Benji and Kaylee if he will let us. He can help us just as well as you can."

"Perhaps, even better," Tessa said, as she reached up to tie her braids back, "since he trained with the family before they were all killed."

Benji let out a sour laugh. "Barely, I was hardly more than a kid."

He sat to my right and Kaylee still slept curled next to him. From what John had described about her powers yesterday, and how she'd he