Jasmine was crying. She had been sitting on the ground crying ever since they made it out of The Forests of Silence. Lief looked up at the sky, "If she doesn't stop crying we will have to camp here." Barda, Lief, and Mark all looked at Jasmine.

Mark finally decided what he had to do. He went over to Jasmine and said, in the nicest voice he could, "Jasmine, we have to keep ging. It's what John would have wanted." Jasmine instantly turned on him, "You have no idea what John would have wanted." Mark did no know how to respond to this, but he didn't have too because Jasmine kept yelling, "You were just lucky Lief and Barda were here. Otherwise you would have died a long time ago. And if it wasn't for you John wouldn't have died. We had enough food for the four of us so we would have never had to eat the Orchard Keeper's fruit." Mark couldn't take it anymore. He would not have John's death on a conscience. "You are lucky I was here. If I wasn't that Orchard Keeper would have killed you all." Lief and Barda stepped in there before the argument could escalate into violence.

Lief took Mark away, and they walked a little. Mark asked the question that had been bugging him ever since he fell in Deltora. "What is this quest for?" Lief said, "Somebody came in the palace screaming and babbling abou something near The Lake of Tears then he died. Mark then asked, "What did he die from?" Lief said, "A wound on his back but other than that it looked like... fear."

The word hung in the air for a little bit. At first Mark was surprised, but then fear settled into him. "So you are basically going over to see what's wrong." Lief nodded then asked a surprising question, "Have you ever shot a bow and arrow?" Mark nodded. He had shot archery and grew to love to bow hunt. Lief smiled, "Good. Can you show me how good you are?" Mark nodded again. Lief handed him a bow and told him to hit a large tree. Mark took aim, missed, but hi a small apple hanging off a branch. Lief smiled, "You are good." Mark said a thank you and they headed back.

Jasmine had calmed down but looked annoyed. "We better head out," she said. Everybody nodded and started off again.

A/N: Sorry I made Jasmine sort of a jerk this chapter, but I wanted to show how devastated and angry she was after John had died. She will be better in the rest of the chapters.