Allissa

We lost them somewhere in the dark. I could not have told you where. One moment, the tunnel at our backs was a dry thunder of bodies, and the next, it was only the two of us breathing. We slowed, and then we stopped making any sound at all. We felt our way forward through the pale undergrowth of the deep places with our hands out ahead of us. Even with our beasts, it was tough to see down here.

“I think we lost them,” Darren breathed against my ear.

The next bend was not fully dark ...