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My eyes widened, and my lips parted.
Shit.
Another fae woman emerged, with another human woman on her back.
There were no sounds that told me anyone was fighting.
No screams, or yells.
Just an eerie silence.
When another woman came out with Dots hanging over her shoulder, my stomach clenched.
I had to do something, didn’t I?
But what?
Flying down there would be absolutely stupid. I wanted to live my life for real, not get myself captured. So obviously, that wasn’t an option. No way in hell could I fight the female fae.
The men seemed to have been incapacitated in some way—otherwise how would the women have gotten the ex-human girls from them?
If the men had been knocked out somehow, they wouldn’t be able to follow the fae women, to see where they were taking the other ladies.
So that was what I could do, without getting myself captured—I could figure out where the female fae were taking the other ladies.
Though more fae women were emerging from the dome, I only gave them one last glance before quietly and carefully making my way to my feet.
The trees in Vevol—or at least in the part of the forest we occupied—were massive. Most of the tree trunks were as thick around as small cars. A lot of the branches were as thick around as I was, and all of them overlapped with branches from other trees.
That meant I could climb from tree to tree.
Theoretically.
My balance wasn’t great, though. It never had been. I was the girl who spent her weekends relaxing in the bathtub with a book, trying not to drop the damn thing in the water, not camped out at the gym. I had been pretty damn good at riding horses throughout the majority of my Earth life, but it had been ages since then, and branches were nothing like horses.
If I shifted forms, it would be much easier. But the chance of being spotted in my dragon form was a lot higher, so it was time to play Tarzan.
There were a ton of branches around me, stretching in all different directions, so I wasn’t going to have to operate on balance alone.
And the ladies at the front of the group were only getting further away, so…
I couldn’t avoid this any longer.
It was go time.
Not gonna lie, I silently hummed Mission Impossible music as I loosely wrapped my fingers around the branch above my head.
I think the music was my brain’s way of avoiding the panic that was threatening to cut off my damn breathing.
And, since I couldn’t think of another excuse, I started walking.
Luckily, the branch remained mostly steady for the first half of its length. As I reached the second half, it started to sway.
Panic made my breathing pick up, but I forced myself to continue moving steadily even as the branch narrowed.
Knowing that I could shift if I needed to took away the fear of crashing to my death, but there was still the fear ofplungingbefore I managed to shift…
And getting caught by the female fae.
