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“I don’t need fighting skills to help carry food, right?”
He can’t argue with that, but he does say something more to Fox.
I look at our translator’s lips.
“He doesn’t think it would be smart for you to be seen by anyone who might be going to or from the cafeteria while everyone thinks you are dead.”
Oh. Right. Damn.I kind of forgot about that.
There’s never anyone around when I’m walking home from work, but it isn’t that late. Not yet.
“We can avoid the main streets,” I tell them. “And I’ll walk between you. Anyone who sees us will see you first. I doubt they’ll even notice me if they see you.”
Scar nods slowly. It’s no more of a risk than they’re taking going out there.
People will freak out if they see the monsters from The Abyss walking around.
I doubt they would do anything about it while it’s dark out, considering the chimera have basically turned the whole pack into the kind of wolves who fear nightfall. These shifters are deathly afraid of monsters who don’t even exist.
They wouldn’t dare challenge even one of them, much less four and their new mate.
The worst that might happen would be someone going to the Alpha’s house to report seeing us, but they would do that in the morning, when it’s safe.
And it won’t get them anywhere considering the Alpha’s sons are dead.
We’ll be declaring our new position in the pack tomorrow, anyway.
Once we have our plan worked out. We can’t iron those details out on empty stomachs.
I smile. “What are we waiting for? Let’s go find dinner.”
Chapter Forty
Scar
Itisnotdifficultto avoid others when we begin our walk. Nightshade’s main streets are contained within a small area, leaving the parts closest to the forest dark and empty. The route we take is free from the streetlights that Snake is fond of, and the risk of encountering any members of the pack out here is extremely low.
Everyone stays away from the forest’s edge after dark.
This pack have been so well controlled by lies that I am not sure how we will tackle untangling the web the chimera put in place to keep their victims trapped. They are likely to be resistant to hearing a new truth from those they think of as rejects or monsters, and that is before we even begin to propose changes to the way of life out here.
I have faith that Lita will have a way to get through to them.
They are her people more than they were ever mine.
She seems to care about what happens to them.
I do not like that they were targeted and used by chimera, but I do not feel connected to the pack in the same way that she does.
Despite how they have treated her, she has compassion for them.
She will make a fair and worthy leader.
I stop outside of the barn that houses the livestock.
“Sounds like dinner,” Fox murmurs.
Snake shakes his head. He hisses something about the other barn, the one full of crops.
