Travis grunted with relief, his alarm subsiding. Then she could remember.
"Yes," he responded eagerly.
But she was gazing about, her puzzlement growing. "Where is this—?"
"We are higher in the mountains."
Now fear was pushing out bewilderment. "How did I come here?"
"I brought you." Swiftly he outlined what had happened at their night camp.
The hand which had been at her head was now pressed tight across her lips as if she were biting furiously into its flesh to still some panic of her own, and her gray eyes were round and haunted.
"You are free now," Travis said.
Kaydessa nodded, and then dropped her hand to speak. "You brought me away from the hunters. You did not have to obey them?"
"I heard nothing."