The Girl Who Was A Warrior (The Clandestine Chronicles Book 1) by Emory L. S

Author:Emory, L. S. [Emory, L. S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

It didn’t take us long to get back on the path. We weren’t as far off as I had thought. The forest was quiet, at least from what I could hear. I knew that Kirby could probably hear better than I could, if for no other reason than his ears were so much bigger than mine. But I wasn’t going to trust him or his hearing. I did just as he instructed, constantly looking around and being aware of any strange sounds.

Every few feet, he would look at the map again, and point in the direction that we were going to walk. I would start to say something, but he would immediately put his finger to his mouth, meaning that I should be quiet. I tried to not let my mind wander, but I couldn’t help but think about what we were walking towards. I had no idea what I was looking for. Cody had disappeared before I could ask any questions that would help me.

All of a sudden, I felt something burn in my nose. There was something in the air, a putrid smell, so bad that it made me stop. I touched Kirby on the shoulder to get him to stop.

“What is it? You see something? You hear something?” He whispered to me, holding his staff out in a fighting stance, darting his eyes from side to side.

Then I realized what it was. “I smell smoke,” I whispered back to him.

He stuck his knows up in the air and sniffed. “You have a good nose. I barely smell it. Which direction?”

I breathed in again. I wasn’t sure, but I thought I could point out the general direction. “Over there,” I pointed.

Kirby leaned on his staff, staring out in the direction that I had pointed. “There’s a clearing over in that direction, a little way deeper, past where those trees get thicker. Smoke means fire. Something’s burning.”

Well, that was obvious. The question was, what was burning? “Could the forest be on fire? I’ve seen what wildfires have done out in California, and if that’s what’s happening, we have to get out of here in a hurry.”

“No, that’s not it. First of all, there isn’t enough smoke for a forest fire. I’ve seen fires like that, and this isn’t nearly that big. And this isn’t California. It’s the southeastern U.S. There aren’t fires in this part of the country like that. They did teach you basic geography in that fancy school, didn’t they?”

“Yes, and I know where we are. The question is, what is burning? And what does it matter? We have a mission. We don’t have time to be bothered with this.”

Kirby shook his head. “Unfortunately, we do have to be bothered by this. Look,” he said, pointing on the map. “It’s right in the path that the map is showing us that we are supposed to be going.”

I looked down at the map. He was right. The path highlighted on the map was going straight through where I thought the smoke was coming from.

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