Chapter 15

Eliza cautiously inched away from the two brothers, hoping while she did so that they’d stay consumed with each other and not notice when she ran like the wind to get away from them.  She was still confused by the topic of their conversation, but she clearly understood the words ‘killing people’ and ‘us or them’.  That was all she needed to hear for panic to flood her body and the need to flee as quickly as possible to become overwhelming.

Because her thinking was clouded with emotions, she ran in the wrong direction.  Instead of heading back toward the trail, she rushed deeper into the wilds of the mountainside. The thick array of random foliage that grew between close growing trees made the going arduous, but the adrenaline in her veins helped her plough through with relative ease. So much so that she hardly noticed it.

When she stopped to catch her breath, she could hear the faint, animated voices of Oli