Chapter 26
I hated walking through towns, especially now with a walking stick, because I felt like I was shouting the fact that I was blind from the top of my lungs. I grew defensive if anyone got too close or said the wrong thing. Just ask Jade.
"Who? This?" she'd said once while nudging me. "I'm taking care of her and my brother."
We'd been strolling through Margin with Lee on our heels, and she'd said it to impress some random boy she'd met two seconds earlier. So, I'd taken Lee and Hellbreath back to Margin's Row without her and made her walk a large chunk of the twenty miles back. I would've let her do the whole trek if not for Lee getting upset about it, and after I finally rounded back to pick her up, the summer sun beating down, she didn't speak to me for weeks.