After the Slain is shot, Odymn and an Argenop elder work together to try and return him to good health. As they journey towards the Themble, survival is a challenge. Odymn must add to her foraging skills and survive an attack by the vicious kotildi...
Odymn – one of the Slain's trafficking contracts; 28 one-suns old; harvested by the Doc-winders in 2013 when she was a high school student in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in training to compete as a gymnast at the Rio Olympics in 2016; harvested at her home after fleeing from a church dance where 43 other teenagers were also taken; used by the Dock-winders as a bed warmer, seamstress and waitress; self-taught practitioner of parkour; learned lots of wood-lore from her dad who was a hunter and angler.
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The Slain – once a travelling trafficker in sentients; 43 harvested by the Dock-winders in 1988 when he was eight years old and living with his mother, father and three brothers on a sheep ranch outside Chadron, Nebraska; genetically altered to be a Slain; skilled negotiator; in thirty years of wandering, took every chance he had to shape a section of woodland into a dwelling at Rafters in the Themble Wood.
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Wen-le-gone – 160 one-suns old; kidnapped by the Slain and sold to a merchant in Sintha; Odymn rescued him and together they saved the life of the Slain; continuous source of help for the Humans; champion tath'toll player and inventor of the game "toe-twiggle".
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