~ SASHA (Two Weeks Later) ~
She woke that morning with a groan and didn't open her eyes immediately, though her heart was pounding.
Even though they'd found plenty of grasses, and Zev had collected a couple of extra furs, she was still finding sleeping on the ground an adjustment.
Thud, thud, thud, her pulse sang in her head. It had started the first morning after they'd seen all the humans arrive. Between stress and usually waking without feeling Zev's warmth next to her, she'd woken up every morning with an adrenalin rush.
Two weeks. For two weeks they'd evaded the humans. It had taken them that long to move slowly out, in long spirals, from the City and the Village.
Sasha grimaced just thinking about the hordes of people they'd brought through, rifling through the City and the dwellings in the village. They'd crawled over the place like ants—and made her stomach twist in much the same way.
