Deep Blue Jump
Novelette 13,014 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Po arrived on the back of the west wind, in the back of a gray pickup, on a day when the noon sun could have killed her. It was Po’s good fortune that the worst of the trip was made in late afternoon and, Kim thought, that she wore a white hoodie—dirty, thin, but still a shield. The other newcomers were parched."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.