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Luna dashes in the house and the pained noise she makes, makes me realize her mother isn’t here.
A loud horn sounds through the forest; I recognize it immediately. Something uncomfortable settles in my chest.
They have her.
Last time I left them; Margaret had settled them in their backup home. It was on another part of the kingdom and Margaret assured me it was magic protected and they would never be found. It was a half day away from their old home and she said it was safe. I wouldn’t have thought Shamus would have known who she was. But maybe he went looking for the woman with the wolf who helped us.
I should have come sooner. Guilt claws at me as we run behind a now-frantic, out for blood Luna.
Aria will never forgive me if I lose her mother. And it will be worse if her mother suffers just as she did.
Luna jumps in a clearing just as we are about to reach the edge of the forest. We screech to a halt behind her, heart beating in my ears. She jumps on one of the armed soldiers and rips their head clean from them. It all happens too quickly. With the element of shock on the soldiers, we surround them.
I count about 20 humans, all armed but Margaret isn’t here. We subdue them quickly, and catch all the runners, tying them to trees. Their eyes look between us and Luna, who is bloody but looks like she is about to take the next one, wanting more blood.
I wonder how long they have been on the run.
“Where are you going and where is the woman?” I ask the one who looks most terrified.
His eyes look to the dead soldier. He is too young to be a soldier. He looks like he is barely a man.
“We were just following instruction. Please don’t kill us…” he weeps.
“Shut up, Barry.” The one who looks like the leader chastises him.
“The next time I ask, I will be removing an eye from the tip of my sword,” I say.
Someone snorts from behind me and I turn to see what Faz finds funny. But his attention is on Luna who looks like she is about to rip another head off. A stink of human waste makes my nose and I shake my head.Pathetic.
“We were sent for the witch. She is here. That’s all we know,” the young soldier says.
“How many of you are here?” I ask.
The leader scoffs. With one swift move my battle axe finds its way to his neck and I press a little to break skin. An instant flow of blood slides from him as his flesh separates. He screams like a new-born, still not speaking but the fear in his eyes is one of a regretful man.
“How many and why do they want her?”
“She is wanted by the King. She betray—”
Another loud horn sounds through the forest. We are losing time.
“Where are they taking her?” I demand, voice a little less impatient. I am about to lose it.
The leader scoffs again. This time I don’t stop Luna and she rips his throat out with her paw.
“Let’s go.”
We take the soldiers as prisoners and head for the human dwellings.
My heart beats in my ears thinking about what this could mean. It reminds me of the night Aria was taken.
The soldiers tell us where they likely took her. There is an arena today and everyone is going there. Margaret is set to be a display for the foreigners of the nearing kingdom. A token of how Shamus deals with his enemies.
The coward.
We won’t be able to find where she is effectively going as a group, so I order us to split in two so we can cover more ground.
Luna leads me to a high point where we can see most of the town below and we see some soldiers entering the palace, one of them carrying a brown sack.
