Chapter 13 Far Up North

Adrienne left Emrick castle on an early morning. She went home to her old house back in Ardelean Village and stayed for a week. But she couldn’t stay in the place anymore. People would talk.

She left after a week and boarded a train going north to God knows where she didn’t know. Much less cared, at all.

She put her suitcase inside the train and crossed the aisle and found an empty seat at the middle. There were lesser people found on this side of the train. She put her bag on the opposite seat and settled herself on the dark red rose seat.

The train waited for at least twenty minutes before it started to move. Gray smoke emitted from the chimney and it billowed in the wind, the gas seen through the glass window. The journey up north would be a long quiet one. 

She watched the rolling hills and green fields and passing trees already turning orange or yellow ready for autumn. The sky was clear above and there were occasional white birds that she s