Chapter 13 - Coming together.

Four weeks later:

For some time now, me and Nathaniel had taken it upon ourselves to do all we could for our village. Nathaniel was now keeping back half of his food too, to give to the people. Every night before he went home, he would check on many families and give them whatever we could spare.

I had finally told Maude about the dead people me and Nathaniel helped to bury. Since then, she’s tried to put aside spare food for me to take for them. I felt a sense of achievement. It still wasn’t feeding everyone as much as we’d liked but we were making a difference and people were starting to really appreciate our visits. Nora had been busy making as many broths as she could. One elderly couple had started to look less skinny and had started to regain enough energy to walk and gather little bits of food for themselves.

I tried to focus on the good we were doing. I had to. Edric had received word from King Aldrich, stating that Mallon had become ill, but once he was well again, Mallon wou