Braving the Beasts (The Hybrid Trilogy Book 1) by Aleera Anaya Ceres

Author:Aleera Anaya Ceres [Ceres, Aleera Anaya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-09T22:00:00+00:00

I observed the trail I'd left behind. Looked for any sign my mother had been here. She followed me. There had to have been tracks. They couldn't have just randomly disappeared unless someone had hidden them. People didn't just vanish into thin air. There was always a trace left behind.

That's what I searched for.

I searched for some sign of disturbed earth, for hidden tracks, for traps hidden away. It was hard without the light of day but it needed to be done.

I'd tracked wild boars in the dark before.

River, a fairly good tracker as well, helped me search the ground, feel the earth. Kael tried helping too, though he admitted he didn't have much tracking experience.

Lex just whistled and tossed pebbles around. "This is ridiculous!" He finally exclaimed. "It's too dark to see anything!" He took a step near a berry bush and suddenly there was a snap and he let out a cry as he was hauled up by the foot by a piece of rope and dangled aimlessly from a tree branch. His face went red. "See?" He groaned. "Can't see anything!"

I sighed loudly.

River looked at him with distaste. "You are an idiot."

"I should leave you up there as punishment." I said with annoyance. We were on a life or death mission and he'd went and gotten himself caught in a trap. The fool.

Lex let his head hang and he swung his body back and forth, eyes focused on the ground. "Guys," he said.

"Don't even." Kael interrupted sternly. "We won't be cutting you down until we are finished searching."

"Guys," Lex sung.

"Maybe we should head further north." River suggested, looking towards that direction. "There's too much grass in this area and it being spring, no leaves are fallen to give us signs of disturbances. I can make out your tracks easily enough. You ran and tore out the grass as you did so because of force and pressure. Everywhere else appears undisturbed."

I rolled my eyes. "I know how tracking works, Riv."

"Guys,"

"I was saying it aloud for Kael's benefit."

Kael gave me a cheeky smile that melted my insides. "I need as much help as I can get."

"Guuuuys!"

"What?" I snapped, turning to Lex's direction.

He was looking down at the cluster of bushes below him with wide eyes. "There's something you should see."

Sighing, I stood and walked over to where he was and looked to where he pointed. There, in the middle of the cluster of bushes was exactly what I'd been searching for.

A disturbance.

The bushes looked to be mangled, twigs and branches strewn and broken. There was a clumpy pool of red and purple looking berries on the ground.

I bent to examine it closely.

"Someone's been here." River echoed my thoughts aloud.

"How do you know it's a human?" Lex asked, body swinging into me.

I pushed him away distractedly. "Animals don't make messes this big."

"It looks like someone was laying here," River said absently, circling around the bushes to get a closer look. "And then there was a struggle." It certainly looked that way.

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