To find and follow a route from one place to another

📝 Sailors once used the stars to navigate across the open ocean.

📖 Roz must navigate her way across an unknown landscape, with only her memory and the stars to guide her toward the sea.

To escape or avoid someone, especially by being clever

📝 The clever fox managed to evade the hounds by doubling back on its tracks.

📖 To reach the island, Roz must evade the RECOs — the recovery robots sent to track her down and bring her back.

A person or creature running away or in hiding

📝 The fugitive hid in the hills, never staying in one place for long.

📖 Once she flees the farm, Roz becomes a fugitive, hunted across the countryside by those who own her.

Rough, rocky, and difficult to cross

📝 The rugged coastline was lined with jagged cliffs and hidden caves.

📖 Roz's path leads through rugged country — rocky hills, tangled forests, and rushing rivers.

Chased or searched for in order to be caught

📝 The escaped lion was hunted across the plains for three days.

📖 Roz is hunted every step of the way, never sure when her pursuers might suddenly appear.

Followed in order to catch or capture

📝 The police car pursued the speeding van through the narrow streets.

📖 Closely pursued, Roz cannot stop to rest for long; the recovery robots are always close behind.

Followed by signs, marks, or signals

📝 The rangers tracked the wounded deer by the prints it left in the mud.

📖 Roz is tracked by signal and by sight, and must hide her trail to keep from being found.

Without stopping or weakening; never giving up

📝 The rain fell relentlessly for three days without a single break.

📖 The RECOs follow relentlessly, never tiring and never giving up the chase.

Impossible to stop

📝 Once the boulder began to roll, it was unstoppable.

📖 Yet Roz, too, is nearly unstoppable — driven by a love that will not let her turn back.

Extremely tired; completely worn out

📝 After the long hike, the children were too exhausted to eat their dinner.

📖 Even a robot can run low on power; by night, Roz is all but exhausted from the endless journey.

A long journey, especially by sea or through difficult country

📝 The explorers prepared for a voyage that would last many months.

📖 The voyage home is far longer and more dangerous than Roz had ever imagined.

A long, hard journey on foot

📝 It was a two-day trek through the jungle to reach the waterfall.

📖 Mile after mile, the trek tests every part of Roz, body and will alike.

A dense group of bushes or small trees

📝 The rabbit darted into the thicket and vanished from sight.

📖 Roz hides in a dense thicket as the recovery robots sweep past, scanning the trees.

A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

📝 A narrow bridge crossed the ravine far above the rushing stream.

📖 Roz picks her way down into a steep ravine, using the shadows to slip out of sight.

The small bushes and plants growing beneath larger trees

📝 Pushing through the underbrush, they finally reached the clearing.

📖 Brightbill flies above while Roz pushes through the tangled underbrush below.