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As I placed the tip of ainst the paper, I realized what a difficult exercise this was in this man’s case Usually I would write the nae Here, I could only think to write, British Guy

Still, I wrote dohat little I knew of him His physical sys Shayla’s stateeneral physical appearance And then soleaned of that I hadn’t had much of a chance to observe his personality yet I also noted his inability to hold down food today And that was about all I could fill the page with

Well, that was quick

But it was a start nonetheless Hopefully, in the co days, Shayla and I would be able to learn a lot es ofwith my pen, which I planned to take with h I had gotten to bed earlier than usual, it wasn’t until about ht that I finally dropped off to sleep MyI had witnessed in The Woodlands, and I also worried about hownow on the ht be like toer

If there was anything that I could complain about in my life--which, if I was honest with myself, there really wasn’t--it certainly wasn’t that it was boring

Vivienne

As we arrived at the ood on my word to Victoria I’d promised her that ould do our best to look for Bastien and relay her hter had confessed toh I’d tried not to show it She was nineteen years old now I’d meant it when I’d said that she was free to make her own decisions Of course she was Still, the abrupt way in which she and Bastien had met, and the exceptionally short aether, made me fear that the relationship would end in disappointment--even if Bastien survived the hunters But that was a concern that I had to keep to myself

In any case, as hter’s behalf, I didn’t hold out ain I feared that the hunters htered the whole lot of those wolves, burned the the round Even the mountainside itself was charred black

We touched down on aus a clear view We scanned the area to spot hunters round below There were alsoabout the area None of these were on chains Theythe array of olf corpses strewn about the soil I felt sick as I spotted a group of et another scorching

Once we’d located ons resu They soared doard so fast, the hunters barely knehat hit them as deadly billows of fire shot down and enshrouded them The mutants emitted a chorus of screeches as they launched into the sky as a single cloud Being unable to see their attackers had theons focused their attention on the horde, exhaling e the fla to harass them with their blaze until the mutants fled Away from the mountain, and, hopefully, away from The Woodlands Without their masters, I wondered what they’d do

Now that we had cleared the outside of the ons reuard, while the rest of us ventured inside We hurried along the dark entrance tunnel with Derek and Ben at the lead At the end of the tunnel, in front of an ancient-looking door, stood three hunters aruns Ben, Xavier and Derek silently took theround