There were seven of them in all--an older couple, Agathe and Jacob, who'd stayed hidden in one of the huts during the attack, the woman Wen had saved from probable r**e, Sarah, and her teenage son Wesley.
Then the thin man whose name was Thomas, a woman just a few years younger than Sin named Lilia who was the group's healer, and the tiny, shriveled old elder human woman the rest of them called Sele.
The elder woman had been afflicted with what Lilia called "the mind sickness" and couldn't speak. Which explained why she'd been so silent when the soldiers dragged her out of the hut, Sin thought.
Now she sat huddled at the fire with a blanket wrapped around her, her long gray hair straggling down her thin back, staring into the flames as if the rest of the people in the clearing didn't
