Blood & Fur - Chapter Sixty-Two: Skin & Bones

... nd the hunters’ horns resonated across the land.

Our gracious headstart had already come to an end by the time Chikal, Nenetl, Itzili, and I wandered deeper into the forest. While Eztli took Astrid downstream to the west, where she would hopefully fly the poor girl to safety, we walked to the east amidst the trees. The smell of my blood would inevitably lead Nightkin trackers to us, but the foliage, canopy, and Chikal’s measures to obscure our tracks should shield us from detection for s ...