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through the tunnel, approaching them. Her voice spoke even faster. “Do you have any idea where they went?”
    Shaking his head, he struggled to stand, Arissa still clutching his arm to help support him. “I know they have already brought him to Ravl, Tragen and Jasvil. They are not going to repeat their own tracks. That only leaves one place left that they would trust.”
    “ Varkland. But that’s going into the mountains!”
    “ That’s the only reasonable place left for them to go. Even they are running out of places to run to. Nobody expected you to survive this long on your own.”
    “ This isn’t my fault and I have others to worry about besides myself. This will all be over soon.”
    The running footsteps had slowed nearly to a walk outside the door. Arissa gripped Karson’s blood soaked hand once, already getting up to move. He called after her, quietly as possible, “There’s an exit on your left. You can double back and find the nearest gate. I made sure it isn’t being watched.”
    “ Thank you,” she whispered, but she had already turned the corner in the dark hall, suddenly running faster than she thought she was able.
    Before she even had time to process the situation, Arissa came upon a still body at her feet, right in an open door. Karson was right, he had made sure it wasn’t being guarded.
    Arissa was nearly out the door when she stopped, thinking quickly. The reason she had come here was to find out where they would be taking him to next, but now that she knew the information, she suddenly felt a strange draw back to the reformatories. Perhaps there was something else here that she needed to know. Everybody guarding the city would be in a mad hurry to conceal the walls and if she didn’t leave now, she might never get the chance to.
    Surely the General and every other guard in the area already knew of her capture, but it didn’t make sense for them to try to kill her, when they had accidentally hit Karson instead. If she was under arrest, they needed her for the trials that would be held. The only ones who would be trying to kill her were the endless number of troops that were no doubt trailing her all over the land, but even then, they would stop at the blockades of the cities.
    She didn’t have time to think about it any longer. If there was something she should be finding out about the reformatories, it would have to wait. Right now, she needed to find the camp within the Varkland mountains. After they were reuni ted, she could come back if necessary.
     

Chapter Seven
                  Three days passed before Arissa arrived at the base of the intimidating mountain ranges astride Raze. In all the time since she had left there had not been a single whisper of another human around her. There had hardly been a day when she hadn’t seen, or at least heard, the huntsmen prowling the forests looking for her. Now there wasn’t as much as a fresh track. The thought unsettled her, making her even more paranoid and alert.
                  With so much ground to cover, Arissa suddenly felt completely overwhelmed. Alone, it was almost impossible to investigate every plane and canyon of the mountain. Before rushing into what could very well be a trap, she needed to stop and make a plan.
                  Varkland was the isolated, most dangerous city in the territory, located nearly on the peak of the mountain that reached high above Arissa now. It had been officially abandoned as a functioning city years ago, although many people still chose to live there. However, they were either fugitives that were in hiding or people who had run away from the battles that had claimed most of the land in recent attacks. Cowards and thieves and traitors lived there. In Varkland, there was no law, no rules, only the single goal to survive.
                  Why the General had chosen this derelict city, Arissa couldn’t imagine. The militia never stepped foot near it,