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"It seems we need to try a different approach," she muttered to the lued on me until they both opened the door and exited the roo my injured head withfroh to not kill me yet

It was inthelass, through which they were likely now staring at one on a o to shut down the order of the hunters

But so s had happened since, I supposed that it was only a ain

But ould they be set up in the ate nearby? If so, hoould they have found out? The click of the door interruptedthe man I’d woken up to

One of them carried a ladder

He positioned it in the center of the roo for the first time

The man loosened several hatches at all four corners of the square ceiling, then pushed a button on the side of the wall

The lights flickered off and the ceiling began to lift

Sun spilled down into the rooher

Eventually it folded out of sight coed in sunshine

The forest sounds that filled the cha the trees, likely in the giant tree house I’d spotted

My skin erupted in agony, as though soin to blister and crackle

I could barely even see through the brightness

I squinted, trying tome

"Perhaps now you’ll behis seat oppositeto position myself so that the sun hit as little of me as possible

But it was impossible

"Two simple questions to start with

Your nale to even pay attention to his words

I was about to hiss out a ures leapt through the top of the roof

And everything that happened next was a blur

All three hunters leapt back froures, ere reat for hu off the walls

I had to duck as one ca toward my head, and one only narrowly missed my shoulder