They left their horses behind for local villagers and finally reached England. Days passed without seeing a single soul, leaving Jayden frustrated and Madison curious. She had never known such desolate areas could exist outside of the lands they had left only a few of weeks prior. They resembled everything she had seen across the seas, but in a different lighting. Tall and rocky mountains with lakes scattered about from region to region, and the scent of the trees greeted her before she ever saw them. The rains came nearly every day, making it greener than anything she had ever beheld. The landscape was so vastly different from anywhere else and yet exactly the same in nature. As the days passed, they wondered through landscapes she never pictured she would have visited before this new life became of her. Often signs of life were near, but hardly found. Other times townships appeared, placed in areas she didn’t think people capable of inhabiting.
