#Chapter 233: The Cliff

Moana

“Kat?” I called out.

My bodyguard was nowhere to be found. One minute she was right beside me, and the next she was just… gone. She just took off running and didn’t look back.

Maybe she found the valerian roots, I thought to myself, although I think I knew deep down that it wasn’t the case. She had left me; although I didn’t know why.

“Hello?”

I started to jog in the direction that she ran off to. Over my head, the wind began howling more aggressively and the sky darkened as a horrible thunderstorm began to form in the sky. No matter which way I turned, I couldn’t see the mansion anywhere.

And we had taken so many turns that I didn’t even know where I should go to find it now.

“Okay…” I stopped and shut my eyes for a moment, thinking. We hadn’t been walking for that long… Maybe if I just got my bearings, I could find my way back to the mansion. When I opened my eyes again, I resolved to start off by heading upwards, since I remembered walking down a gradual slope.

But from here, I couldn’t even see where the slope began. The only marker I had nearby was the stream that we crossed, but I didn’t know where to go from there. If only I had been paying attention to all of the winding twists and turns that Kat took me on.

Suddenly, I heard a soft voice calling over the wind.

“Moana!” it called.

It was Kat.

I let out a sigh of relief. “Kat?! Where are you?!” I shouted, cupping my hands around my mouth in order to be heard better over the sound of the whistling wind.

and then the little voice rang

way! Follow my

really did find the valerian roots, or maybe she got a little lost herself when she ran off. I trusted Kat, and

out again, still jogging.

Another silence.

“This way!”

opposite direction now. Did I somehow run past her? I whirled around and strained my eyes to see in that direction, but I couldn’t see anything through the thick mist that

to myself.

of the wind. More rain began to fall, even harder than before, and I shivered

in my mind. “I think we should just try to get home without

wasn’t intentionally leading me on a wild goose chase, I needed to prioritize my baby’s safety. If I stayed out here for too long, anything could happen in

hood up and began to trudge

where I was. I

to my wolf. “At the very least, I’ll wind up on a road and maybe someone driving

arms folded across my chest to hold my jacket tight against me. It was already almost entirely soaked through, though. At least I

to

trying to pick up a trail to

Moana. The rain is dampening my sense of smell, and since I haven’t shifted yet it wasn’t very strong

alright.” I sighed, louder this time, and kept

I was walking for, but eventually the trees seemed to be thinning out a bit, which was promising. Maybe I was reaching the edge of the forest. The mist was too heavy to see

thinned out a

as loud as I could, just hoping that he was nearby and could hear

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