It was the time of eagles.

They did not go together, and the restless young did not wait for the adults but took wing as the warmth of the earth created a thermal to assist them in their lift.

It was not so easy for two orphan Dutch girls on the dock of a strange continent, having escaped a cholera epidemic on a ''death ship''.

They now waited for the person who offered help, but something felt terribly wrong to Nelda.

Where did that sudden dread come from? So what now...?