Mother

The Victory Tour finishes, more horrible than Johanna expected, though nothing worse happens, for which she's glad. It's not until a month after her return that things begin to heat up.

It starts with someone tripping. An unexpected, slippery root, a foot in the wrong place. One bent saw blade later, Pola Mason lies on the muddy forest floor with a tree branch smashed into her skull. The medics are too late, and despite the young woman's demands that they save her mother, nothing can be done.

One down, four to go.