In Search of the Castaways Book Two Chapter XVIII - Four Days of Anguish

In which a daring messenger sets off through a wild and stormy night to deliver an urgent letter, only to face a violent ambush that leaves the travellers stranded and anxious. As the party tends to the wounded and debates their perilous course, the dangers of convicts and a burned bridge compel them to reconsider their desperate plans amid the somber, rain-lashed wilderness.