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Before she left the village, Saet some apples and biscuits She drew herself a pitcher of water as well She hoped it would be enough to get her to theelse,the way

She walked down the path to the barns Like the people in the village, the animals should be asleep by now Yet when Sa noises Was there a fire? Or perhaps another animal like a fox or raccoon had snuck into the barn

She threw open the door and then felt around for the lantern By feeling around she found a box of matches on a shelf next to the lantern She lit the lantern, the light casting a din of another ani in one of the pens Saround and then took a pitchfork with her free hand She went over to the sheep's pen and held up the lantern The sheep squealed at her, the largest ra?" Samantha asked The sheep of course could not answer her

She looked around the horse stalls next They pawed at the ground and shook their heads as if an unfauys It's just ood spirits The cow loomed protectively next to her calf "Hi," Samantha said She set down the pitchfork to hold out her hand "It's just ht?"

Sarah didn't coround as the horses had done Her tail whipped froinary flies "I don't knohat's got into you guys tonight, but I just wanted to say goodbye," she said Maybe the aniotten theuys Maybe when I find Mo you all home too" Did her parents own a farm? In a way she hoped so She liked all the open space in Eternity, where she could run around and play, not that she ever got much time for that None of the kids had much time to play like normal kids Even the toddlers had to do chores much of the day Sauess," she said "You be good"