Chapter Sixty-Two (Isla)

After looking out the window and making sure her henchmen were not guarding the door, I left the cabin, closing the door silently behind me. I headed back up the path, careful not to make too much noise; I searched for the door into the castle and could not find it. Maybe it was a portal. I thought.

“Okay, so no door now what?” I spoke to myself.

“Guess we get back the old way. We can’t be too far from the castle; I can sense it.” Daciana shared.

“It still could be far away.” I noted.

“We will run all night if we have to. The fact that Ashina took us now means the Shadow Moon Pack is planning their next move.”

I nodded in agreement and shifted. We took off running through the trees, stopping to smell the air to get a sense of what direction we needed to go in.

“If that door was a portal, it would make sense that it wouldn’t be there anymore, but at the same time, what witch or witches are helping her with this?” I thought as we continued to push forward into the thick forest. “We