Savage Spirit by Cassie Edwards

Author:Cassie Edwards [Edwards, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-21T22:00:25+00:00

His roan traveling at a slow trot, Cloud Eagle continued to follow Alicia's and Gray's tracks. It was the dry season. The grass that had been trampled did not "come back," but gradually became flattened, dried, and turned, finally to dust.

And he knew every spring, water hole, canyon, and crevice. A skilled tracker such as he was as clever as the most erudite scholar who traced, read, and translated the choreography of past ages in his cold, dark cubicle.

Suddenly Cloud Eagle drew a tight rein and stopped. Shielding his eyes from the sun, he gazed ahead to where he had noticed something lying still in the sand.

"Gray," he said, numb at the sight of his coyote lying so apparently lifeless beneath the beating rays of the sun.

Then his heart faltered and the pit of his stomach grew weak as he looked quickly on all sides of Gray for Alicia. When he did not see her, he was torn with feelings. If she was not there, then she might still be alive.

Yet if she was, where was she?

And why had she abandoned Gray?

He knew the affection she felt for his coyote.

"Follow me!" he cried, motioning with his hand to his warriors.

He rode hard until he reached Gray. He drew his horse into a shuddering halt and leapt from the saddle.

Gnats and flies buzzed around Gray, and the dried and matted blood on his pet coyote's fur sent Cloud Eagle's heart to reeling.

After shooing the gnats and flies away, Cloud Eagle knelt beside Gray and checked to see if there was a pulse at the base of his throat.

He heaved a sigh of relief when he found one, then inspected the wound. It was a clean knife wound that had obviously just missed Gray's heart.

Although Gray had lost a good amount of blood, Cloud Eagle felt as though his pet coyote had a chance of surviving if he was cared for right away.

He gave abrupt orders to two of his warriors. One of them picked Gray up in his arms and carried him to his horse. Gently laying him over the saddle in front of him, the warrior mounted, then rode away toward his stronghold.

Cloud Eagle walked slowly around and checked all the hoofprints that had seemed to stop at Gray, then went in another direction away from Gray.

He went stone cold inside when he found Alicia's footprints, then noticed strange long marks that followed along behind one of the horse's prints.

"Someone was dragged behind a horse," Cloud Eagle said, more to himself than anyone else.

Then it hit him like a thunderclap who it must have been.

Alicia!

She and Gray had been traveling together.

Gray had been knifed.

Surely Alicia's life had been spared by her assailants, but her fate was now in question.

He wandered onward for a while longer, studying the tracks, then concluded that he was right to believe that Alicia was the one who was being treated so cruelly, and the one who was carried away on a horse.

He glared in the direction of the tracks and concluded where they would eventually lead.

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