"No, Emma!" Karla snapped. "There was no one. Nothing. We were out in the wilderness where there were no people. That was the whole point--Lucivar took Jaenelle far, far away from civilization, far away from anyone she could hurt. Until we went into Agio, we hadn't seen anyone for days, just the three of us and Smoke. No one. And, sorry, they'd stopped delivering the post in Agio several hours before we showed up. Something about thousands of Jhinka and slaughtering innocents."