As dawn neared, they found an abandoned house, not far from a settlement. Daniel could smell the life in the distance; human and animal, but what was left there was emptiness and dust. The remnants of an English garden a tiny piece of home on foreign soil reminded him that someone had once cared for the place, but where they'd gone was a mystery.

"Probably dead of sickness," Kateesha said as she stopped in the garden, eyes on a homemade trellis.

He moved past her to ...