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find Piwaka alone on the border without Aquilla, in which case we would still have to explain our mission to him.”
    “Don’t forget,” Emily added, “Piwaka is the one who let me cross the border to visit Anna, even though I had an Ursidrean and two Lycaon with me at the time. Aquilla would never have done that.”
    Renier stood up. “We’ll all get a good night’s sleep tonight. In the morning, we’ll move to the Avitras border. Once we get there, we’ll have a better idea how to proceed. Maybe an opportunity will present itself that we can’t see from here.”

Chapter 4
    The sun beat down on the plain. The Felsite column snaked over the sun-baked earth, and the Ursidrean column followed. Aimee and the other Lycaon rode on the Ursidrean battle machines with Donen and his entourage. They wound their way south toward the Eastern Divide separating Avitras and Ursidrean territory. Aimee shielded her eyes from the sun and sighed.
    “Are you okay?” Emily asked.
    “I’m fine,” Aimee replied. “I would have preferred to run.”
    “In this heat?” Emily asked. “You’re crazy.”
    “At least I wouldn’t be sitting still under this sun,” Aimee replied. “The wind keeps you cool. I’m just worried about Marissa. She shouldn’t be out in this heat.”
    “I’m all right,” Marissa replied from the other side of the vehicle. “I’m glad I don’t have to run. I think I spent my last ounce of energy getting here last night.”
    “You shouldn’t have done that,” Aimee told her. “You should have stayed home.”
    “And miss these negotiations? No way,” Marissa replied. “Carmen and Aria and I were the first human women on this planet, and I’ll be there at the end if it’s the last thing I do.”
    Aria spoke up from her place next to Donen. “I wonder if we’ll see Penelope Ann before this is all done.”
    “I’m sure we will,” Anna chimed in. “She’s as much a part of this as any of us. Where Aquilla will be, she will be.”
    The sun quashed further conversation, and most of the party dozed or at least kept their eyes closed. They hadn’t even reached the base of the Divide before the sun set and brought welcome relief from the relentless glare.
    Aimee hopped to the ground. Emily sat up. “Where are you going?”
    Aimee nodded toward the slope. “I’m going to run up. I’ll see you at the top.”
    “But how will you find your way?” Emily asked.
    “I’ll find it.” Aimee tightened her boot laces. “What about you, Chris? Do you want to come along and stretch your legs?”
    Chris shot her a grin. “Don’t mind if I do. I can’t stand sitting still. Come on, Turk. Let’s race ‘em.”
    Turk leapt to the ground and nodded up to Caleb. “We’ll see you up there.”
    Caleb laughed, and in an instant, the sound dwindled to nothing behind them. Aimee led the way, and the wind stripped the torpor and tension from her mind. Treetops whipped past overhead, and her feet barely touched the ground.
    A few minutes later, Chris inched up next to her. Aimee put on a fresh burst of speed. Chris matched her, and Turk dropped back to let them race up the mountain. The track jutted up steep escarpments to peaks high above, but Aimee pumped her legs harder and inhaled the crisp mountain air. She flew over the ground with Chris at her side.
    The track narrowed until it forced them to run single file. Aimee didn’t stop until she broke through the escarpment and ran out onto a pinnacle of rock. She looked back down the mountain to the column far below.
    The sun shone on the mountain peak, but the mountain cast the column into shadow. The Ursidrean machines carried lights powered by their engines, and the long line of fireflies threaded across the plain to the foot of the Divide.
    Chris chuckled at her side. “Did you see the looks on their faces when you said you were going to run up the mountain? It was priceless.”
    “I don’t know how they can sit there, hour after hour,” Aimee