The Way of Eagles

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...?