"Fernlover!" Aiden cried, reaching out after the mule that was as much pet to her as beast of burden.  She started too head after it, hesitating at the thought of what else might be out there.<br/><br/>Then the most wounded of them did what she'd been to cowardly to do and she whispered a mild epiteth, then lurched into the dark after the rogue.  "wait for me!"