Shine smiled at the people who made eye contact. There were a few faces she knew here, but many more she didn't. She knew that Buck and the others worried about her coming down here alone. The Enks were exempt from the laws of anywhere as soon as they left and that made them dangerous.
Now Shine barely cared, her life was going to be ending soon enough, as soon as she was finally able to put her fragile hopes away. She stepped sideways as a child ran past her, pushing the hood she had pulled up away from her blonde hair as she walked towards the wall.