But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of...

The girl’s arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren’t all the way under the girl’s control. “I came to find you.””I...