The Hunters by Stacy Claflin

Author:Stacy Claflin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacy Claflin

Chapter 50

“Is this the place?” Lana asked. She stared at the overgrown trail—or what appeared to have once been a trail. Thick plant life made it look like no one had ever been there.

Brayden and Cruz stared at the maps.

“This is going to be more work than I thought,” Cruz said, looking back and forth between the maps and the trail they needed to cut.

“Maybe we can find another way in,” Brayden said. “This is going to take all day just to get in a few feet.”

Cruz shielded his eyes with his hand, looking up and down the side of the trail. “Dude.” He let out a slow breath. “I don’t see anything else better, and I don’t want to travel farther just to find out that this is our best bet.”

“You want to start chopping stuff away?” Lana asked. “Brayden and I can go a little farther and see if we can find anything better.”

“Fine by me.” He pulled a water bottle from the side of his backpack and took a drink.

Lana looked at Brayden. “What do you think?”

“We can explore a little, but I don’t want us splitting up. So we won’t go more than shouting distance from Cruz.”

“Go,” Cruz said, pulling out a knife that looked more like a small sword.

“Sure you don’t want something bigger?” Lana joked.

“This is the smallest one I brought,” Cruz said. “I’m going to warm it up for you, dude.”

Lana rolled her eyes. “Thanks.”

Brayden took her hand and they hurried down the trail, looking at the foliage. None of it looked any easier to get through than the area they needed to cut through.

“Maybe we should have brought a whole crew,” Lana said.

“That wouldn’t have been a bad idea. Let’s go a little farther. I can still hear Cruz hacking away.”

They went down the path, finding the plants growing thicker as they went. “This isn’t promising,” Lana said.

“No. It’s almost as though someone did this on purpose.”

She stopped. “You think so?”

“Why not? If there’s something to cover up, wouldn’t you bring in as many plants as possible to hide it?”

“Yeah. And most of this looks like it’s been growing for a long, long time.”

“We should turn back and help Cruz,” Brayden said.

Lana peered down the trail and then nodded. “We’re just wasting our time.”

They went back and Brayden took off his pack and dug into it, pulling out some knives nearly as big as Cruz’s. He handed one to Lana and removed the sheath from the other.

“Is it as bad as it looks?” he asked Cruz.

“Maybe for you, dude. It’s easy enough for me.”

Brayden laughed and then put his backpack on again before cutting away at thick ivy. Lana pulled the sheath off her knife and shoved it into the side pocket of her pack next to the water bottle. It was a tight squeeze, but it would have to do. She picked a branch near Brayden and cut back and forth.

It didn’t take long before the muscles in her arms ached. She changed position and tried slicing from a different angle.

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