You must have snapped his neck when you caught him with your foot. Nix stretched near the barrier. Good.
Megan snorted. Lucky more like it.
I felt my lip turn up, and then a soul-wrenching scream ripped through the air. The kind of scream that was more emotional pain than physical. The kind of scream that only someone who had lost everything could make. And the only thought I had was…Alannah.
I turned and sprinted for the trees. I didn’t see where they went in, and I panicked as I ran.
Calm yourself. Nix pushed forward. I’m tired, not crippled. I can still smell them. I nodded silently as I ran. I made it to the trees, and I smelled blood. To the left.
“No, no, no, no, no, no.” I wove through the trees looking for signs of my friends. The blood scent was getting stronger. I shook my
