mushrooms
Yuan and Kratos haven't come back yet. The rations still haven't arrived. Jane and Martel climb through the woods behind the temple, gathering mushrooms and berries and anything that they know for certain is edible. Jane knows that Martel is worried. The only words they share are the names of the birds that they see overhead. Neither of them speak of the day before. Jane wants to ask Martel if Mithos was making up those stories of death camps. She wants the green-haired woman to laugh again, to tell her how silly her little brother is.
But Martel does not laugh.
Jane sees the outline of Yuan's handgun tucked into Martel's boot, and she reminds herself that they are at war.