SO THEY KEEP MOVING.

It doesn’t feel good, but like Warden says, there’s nothing they can do for Alex now. So they shoulder their packs. They fall in behind Warden. They follow the trench east, away from the trail.

And Dawn doesn’t tell a soul about how Alex was stabbed.

She figures it’s safer for everyone if nobody knows that she knows someone in the group murdered Alex. That it was probably Brandon or Evan.

She knows if she starts pointing fingers and raising a fuss, well, feelings are bound to get hurt. Lines will be drawn. The whole “getting out of the forest alive” situation will get a little more complicated.

Dawn figures there will be time when they get to the highway to sort through the question of who murdered Alex.

In the meantime, she just wants to survive.

So she keeps her mouth shut.

Doesn’t tell a soul.

(Not even Lucas.)