Hinterland Book 3: The Wolf's Hunt (Hinterland Series) by K.T. Harding

Author:K.T. Harding [Harding, K.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Angela came to Raleigh’s side. “What’s the hold-up?”

Dax broke away. “Wait a minute.”

Raleigh hurried after him. “Dax! Come on. We have to get out of here as soon as we can.”

He didn’t answer. He scuttled into the stable and raced down the long line of stalls. Horses stood in most of them, along with a few milk cows tied in their stanchions. Dax marched down the row to the farthest end. He came to a halt in front of the last stall.

Unlike the others, the doors of this stall stood closed so the party couldn’t see in. Dax paused outside and stared at the doors. Raleigh touched his sleeve. “What’s the matter, Dax? What is it?”

“Someone is calling me,” he whispered. “There’s someone in there.”

He stepped forward and took hold of the top half of the door. He swung it open, and the three friends looked in on another horse. At first sight, it looked like any ordinary horse. Unlike the other horses in the stable, though, it hung its head in misery. Where the other horses looked all around them with their bright soft eyes, this horse’s eyelids drooped to cover its glassed-over eyes.

Open sores covered its body, and bloody gashes marked its legs and neck. Its poor excuse for a tail hung in ragged pieces behind it, and the creature wobbled on unsteady legs. Raleigh sighed. “We better get out of here.”

“He’s talking to me,” Dax whispered. “He’s asking me to help him.”

Raleigh looked at him. “He is?”

Dax nodded. “He’s a hybrid. They’ve been experimenting on him. He thinks he’s going to die here. They come for him every evening. They’ll be back soon to get him, and he doesn’t think he can survive another treatment.”

“If they’re coming back soon,” Angela murmured, “we should get out of here.”

Dax took hold of the lower door. “I’m not leaving until I help him.”

“What are you going to do?” Raleigh asked.

Dax stood in front of the horse and stared at him. The animal—or whatever it was—didn’t move or look up. It just stood there in motionless misery.

A curious energy took hold of Dax. He seemed to expand before Raleigh’s eyes. He drew himself up and laid his hand on the horse’s head. In a blinding flash of light, the horse transformed into a sleek, beautiful, prancing creature like the other horses in the stable.

The horse tossed Dax’s hand off his head and snorted and whinnied. It trotted around its stall and kicked up its heels. It came to rest by the far wall and looked back over its shoulder at Dax.

Dax stood stock still. The strange energy radiated out of him in a halo. The bright sphere Raleigh saw in the forest pulsed all around him. It glowed out of his skin and hair and eyes. His skin flashed rapid changes in color, from the brilliant green of the dragon to purple, to pearly white and peach and yellow. Rainbow sparkles danced from his fingertips, and every hair on his head crackled fire.

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