Chapter 24..-1
Nyx
My wolf shivered at the mournful sound. Feeling her fear rising, I quickly wrested control and started the painful shift. Everybody gave me space expect Victor. My slow shift seemed to
temporarily distract him from his own pain and fear. Finally, I started to dress.
“I’m telling you man, we can’t go this way. Wolves come in here and never return,” Victor insisted.
“We’ve got two things that are going to help us. One is the amulet, and the other is you.” Rhyson
smiled grimly. “You can sense magic. Between the two of us, we’re going to navigate this place.”
“Fuck that,” Victor retorted. “I’m not going to piss off some ghosts.”
The earth howled again, and I closed my eyes. There was a message in her wails, and it wasn’t the
kind that appeared in horror films dripping in blood. This wasn’t trying to scare us off. This was…
emotional pain. This was release.
“Maybe she’s lonely,” Dante muttered. “Nash can keep her warm at night.”
“I can keep anything warm at night,” Nash boasted before he paused. “Can you fuck a ghost? How
would that work?”
“Knock it off,” Duke said in a low voice.
“Rhyson? Are we making camp or are we forging ahead?”
*Rhyson’s POV*
“Forging ahead. We can make it a few hours. Stay close. No straying. Victor, you’re with me.”
Victor practically stumbled into me as Duke pushed him forward. “Watch it, old man,” the teenager grumbled. Duke just smirked, and we slowly made our way forward. There was a small bridge over the water that practically screamed do not cross, which we ignored. What I first thought was
steam quickly turned into dense fog. Suddenly, I realized why the amulet was so important.
We were traveling blind.
The amulet started to warm in my hand. “Turning left,” I said in a low voice and turned, but Victor
made a keening noise. “Never mind, we’re turning right.”
We traveled this way for what seemed like an eternity until there was crunching under my feet. ” Nash. Flashlight.”
It wouldn’t do us any good long-term, but he shined it right at our feet. “Shit,” Nash whispered, and I
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silently agreed.
We were walking on bones.
“Please tell me this is a graveyard that we wandered into,” he muttered.
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“Sure. A graveyard where they don’t bury their dead. Idiot,” Dante muttered. “What are the chances the humans gleefully sent us to our deaths?”
“Humans? What humans?” Victor asked, his teeth chattering. “You don’t mean that settlement south of Gideon, do you? Those are not humans.”
This gave me pause. “They’re not wolves, and they don’t claim to be witches.”
“They’re lying. They’re a coven. Have to be. One night, about two years ago, on a dare, I snuck into the settlement and saw them in a big circle chanting. There was a woman levitating in the air between them and she was surrounded by this green glow. She started screaming about the darkness. No way humans did that.”
“The darkness?”
“Yeah. A few months ago, all the magic on the mountain disappeared. I actually lost control of my wolf. I don’t know how long it lasted, but a strange black mist started to rise from the ground. I think the witch foresaw it or whatever. She sent you here?”
“She sent us this way to wolves named Troy and Kiana.”
Victor stopped abruptly, and everyone stumbled behind him. “Keep moving kid, or we’re all dead.”
“Did you say someone named Troy? Troy Ryker? You don’t know who that is?” he asked incredulously as he started to walk again. “Who the hell are you? I know you can control my wolf.”
I ignored the question and the continued crunching of bones under my feet. When the amulet warmed, I turned only to have Victor tug me in the other direction. “Who is Troy?”
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