tearseternal

   She ambled along the beaten paths. - Trickster's Choice, Tamora Pierce   She ambled along the beaten paths, a hint of worry evident in her posture.  No one knew where she was, her fault.  She hadn't taken the time to tell the others she was going out.  She was sorry now.  She couldn't go back now, and risk having whatever was following her led back to their stronghold, the last outpost of the resistance in this quadrant of the world.  Whatever was following her wasn't friendly.  Even a senser of her poor abilities could tell that.  She was coming to the end of the village now.  Whatever was folloing her will have to come out into the ope