Escape by Jasper Scott

Author:Jasper Scott [Scott, Jasper]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Published: 2012-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Jilly stared numbly at Kieran's lifeless body. The blood had stopped spurting from his knife wound, and her bloody hands had long since stopped trying to do chest compressions. His heart was simply too damaged to be restarted. She knew from long experience as a doctor that some injuries simply could not be fixed in time to save a life, no matter how advanced the equipment used, and she'd had nothing—not even a defibrillator.

Ferrel sat beside her in the grass, his hands alternately curling and uncurling, tearing up great handfuls of the herbage, his piercing red eyes fixed upon Kieran's lifeless face. Lystra Deswin was coraling the saddled wolvins from atop his own, trying to keep them from slinking away.

“What do we do now?” Ferrel asked, his voice coming out small and inflectionless.

“We have to go,” Jilly heard herself say the words, but could scarcely believe she'd uttered them. Going meant leaving Kieran behind. Dead, and behind. Food for the wolvins to come back to later.

“But . . .”

“She's right,” Lystra spoke stridently into a sudden gust of wind, and his shoulder-height wolvin appeared beside them, its great brown-furred head bowed suspiciously close to Kieran, sniffing cautiously. A low growl emitted from its throat, and Lystra gave the saddle straps a sharp tug, bringing the beast's head away from its intended meal. “We must leave them.”

“Them?” Ferrel echoed incredulously. He sent Dimmi a quick glance and his eyes returned to gaze accusingly up at Lystra. “She's not dead,” he said, jerking a thumb over his shoulder.

“Ferrel,” Jilly began, her voice soft and gentle, as though she were speaking to a child. “We have no choice. She tried to kill Kieran. And you heard what she was thinking.”

At this Lystra's head cocked abruptly to one side and his eyes narrowed. “So it's true. You can hear one another's thoughts.”

“Not all of them,” Jilly replied. “Only the ones that form as words in your head. Everything left unspoken. And only if we're paying attention.”

Lystra began nodding distracedly, as if filing those details away for future reference.

Ferrel was busy waging a silent war of unspoken thoughts with Jilly. His blood-red eyes held hers unblinkingly. If we leave her, it will be the same as killing her ourselves. Go ahead, slit her throat. I want to see you do it! You don't have the balls for it, do you? He knew that line of reasoning would unnerve Jilly.

And he was right. Her gaze faltered, and her eyes slid away from his, finding Kieran's lifeless face instead. We can't take her with us. She's not even awake. She won't be able to ride.

So strap her down. Bind her wrists. I don't care how you do it, but we're not leaving her to be eaten alive by wolvins!

Jilly's head snapped around, her eyes suddenly hard. Her hands were balled into fists and she spoke through gritted teeth: “She killed Kieran! And you want to bring her with us? At best she's a murderer, and we don't have time to bring her to justice.

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