GREGOR
h in the woods, his knowledge of t
as the main search party passed nearby. Their voices, the sweeping
phant completely loyal to Cassius. I heard him bar
ssed us. Once they were
edge of the forest. A paved road lay ahead. "That's the border o
and the last of his food, alo
, my voice filled with gen
o. It'll be dawn soon. I h
zing his act of kindness, and th
treeline, a thick fog rolled in, sudden and
s thick as milk and carr
ts screame
, desperate to get
g sound cut through
bolt, its tip glinting with the unmistakable sheen of s
were waitin
I scrambled to my feet a
, coming from all directions. The
sive, feral scent of un-Pack-ed w
as Cassius working with Rogues? A thousan
blindly. My foot caught on a
ing toward me. They held weapons that glea
had just won my freedom. Wa
ot out from a nearby bush. A hand clamped over my mo
ashing against a wall of hard muscle. The overwhelm
ut the arms holding me only tightened the
h pain, rasped in my ear. "Don'
fr
fallen. Finding me gone, they began cu
stranger, hidden in the dense foli
f his heart against my back, and... a wound. Something w
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