Everyone seems reluctant to get back on the train, even Chime, but no one complains outwardly when Ande heads for the locomotive and wakes the slumbering engine. Within a very short time we're ready to move on again, the boiler coals still hot enough to stoke some steam.

Beckett and Vander carry the last packets of cooked meat on board as the train begins to roll, leaving the carcass of the deer behind, bones sharply reflective in the light of the dying fire. I can't look, ...