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Then she sahat she needed ahead It was a branch just a few inches above her head It looked thick enough to hold her weight too If she could just tie as they were, Pryde's animals still couldn't climb trees

She let her instincts, those that had helped her in fights and to open the safe, take over as she neared the branch Sa the branch with both hands She actually swung around the branch once before she shot into the air Her hands reached out to catch another branch to steady herself

Pryde's beast tried to skid to a stop beneath the tree To her aht, alround had sed it up She heard a mournful howl from the creature for a few seconds Then she heard only the wind rustling the trees

Saet a better viehat had happened Only then did she see the cliff Had she not grabbed the branch, she ht have run over it as the beast had She leaned forward in the tree to see jagged rocks far down Gray waves capped by white pounded those jagged rocks, though they were too far away for her to hear yet

With a sigh she sat on the branch to rest She had been closer to the sea than she had thought Pryde's boat o down and see if it had survived the stor supplies later

After a few round She e of the cliff She couldn't see the body of the beast that had chased her; the seaelse, though: a boat! It wasn't Pryde's boat; it was too big for that This boat was about as big as Prudence's shop with a pointed prow, a boxy cabin behind that, and then a square rear

The storm had blown the boat onto the rocky shore Froht on one of the rocks, which held it in place even as the waves beat against it Every time the waves receded, Sa boat, she thought It had probably blown off course fro itself on Eternity