Chapter 853 Heading North

• New Year’s Day.
• In just over a month, time flew by. On the first morning of the year, Yarwood’s sky let down thick, drifting flakes. The world turned white, wrapped in silver, stunning to behold.
• People slipped right into the New Year mood—some gathered with family, some hustled to stock up for the holidays, some tried to squeeze in one last push before year’s end, and some sighed over twelve months gone with nothing to show for it—