It kept the hours and hours we spent on horses from being so monotonous, and kept the anxiety for our town from making us sick. But our progress on figuring any of it out remained exactly zero. Aaren was somehow managing to read Anna’s textbook and notes while riding on his bumpy horse. He blurted out that iron wasn’t the only metal that could hold a magnetic charge—that there were four others that could, too. We thought we had found the solution. But then Luke said that all five could no longer hold a permanent magnetic charge. He had already checked each of them. So we were back to square one. Every time we thought we’d figured something out, we’d realize we hadn’t figured anything out at all. The Rocky Mountains were finally in view over the trees. It was nice to have something to focus on, and to see something getting bigger as we rode along. Especially since we no longer had the mileage trackers, so it was impossible to tell how far we traveled each day. When we neared what Luke guessed was the four-hundred-mile mark, we found remnants of homes.
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