The next day, the two left the village at five AM sharp and pressed on.
After drinking Ronan's blood, Evelyn's stamina had improved significantly overnight. That day, they covered nearly twenty-five kilometers.
On the eighth day, they reached the Silver River. The river spanned three provinces, with many treacherous stretches. During the heavy rains, the Silver River's floodgates had collapsed, flooding several downstream cities. After the period of high temperatures, the river had dried up and its banks had cracked. Following the earthquake, landslides from the mountains on both banks had completely filled it in.
"It's frozen over. The ice looks thick enough to walk across slowly."
Evelyn hauled over a rock and slammed it down hard onto the frozen surface. The ice only split with a thin crack and didn't give way. That put her much more at ease.
