I had watched Henry and his horse race through the finish line, before the gravity of it all sunk in. I wanted to leave, I wanted to run as fast as my feet would carry me and I did. The crowd was behind me and so was everyone else, somehow the noise in my head stilled and dread in my bones stilled. In the emptiness of the field I had run to I had found peace.

This was the farthest I have ever been. My wolf had taken me here when we ran away, it was the edge of the second farm, the one at the eastern side my the...