They saw deer; and once, beside the road, looking at them curious and unafraid,
a small reddish-brown creature with a thick tail, whose name Jonas did not know.
He slowed the bike and they stared at one another until the creature turned away and disappeared into the woods.
All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability,
he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
He slowed the bike again and again to look with wonder at wildflowers, to enjoy the throaty warble of a new bird nearby,
or merely to watch the way wind shifted the leaves in the trees.
During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness.
But there were desperate fears building in him now as well. The most relentless of his new fears was that they would starve.
Now that they had left the cultivated fields behind them, it was almost impossible to find food.
They finished the meager store of potatoes and carrots they had saved from the last agricultural area, and now they were always hungry.
Jonas knelt by a stream and tried without success to catch a fish with his hands.
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