Ilix's body is soon found and laid to rest alongside Annabelle's, and then the group settles in to rest for the night, a rest much-deserved after the stress of the caves. But it is a rest that is, perhaps, not so smooth and undisturbed as they might like.

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Hester moaned in her sleep.

Bristle snorted loudly in her sleep, then rolled onto her stomach, mumbling something unintelligible.

Caleb tossed and turned in his sleep.

The moon slowly tracks across the sky overhead...