Wolf Canyon: Cold Cat Mountain Book II (Cold Cat Mountain Trilogy 2) by Kimberly Goss-Kearney

Author:Kimberly Goss-Kearney [Goss-Kearney, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jericho Publishing
Published: 2016-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

~ Sixteen~

There was no time for pause, no time to catch their breath. And even if Blaze had needed to, she would not have requested it. Not with Shelby's mother showing substantial grit and determination in the face of rescuing her daughter.

Although Blaze quietly resented that they were rushing through yet another treacherous access route, she gritted her teeth in silence, trying to recall her past. Trying to recall if social work had in fact had been as difficult as she'd thought it was. If it had truly been the source of her illness.

Peering up, she studied the slick ice walls surrounding them as they descended the canyon. Blaze longed for her old metal desk overflowing with paperwork in the windowless office she had been confined to when not in the field.

Holding up her hand, she noted nature had provided nothing for them to hold on to as they moved their gloved palms over the well-worn and deadly ice ledge leading them to the bottom. No naturally formed banister guided their descent. Rick had stated they could only safely reach the canyon via the menacing ice spiral created by nature.

A deadly kaleidoscope of icicles and water frozen over colored rock, there was very little option to go back the same way due to the slope of the ice. It created a potentially lethal ice slide; treacherous to try to navigate upward. To leave the canyon later, they would have to exit through the trees to the North; dangerous for its own reasons in that the dark forest was the perfect camouflage for the Cryptids. Despite all its dangers, the ice trail was still considered the safest route to the camp.

Blaze exhaled slowly, trying to pace the adrenaline seeping into her bloodstream. Each team member’s scuffs, breaths and soft gasps reverberated from the dark ice walls around them. They created eerie echoes which Blaze and Bixley were not always certain belonged only to them. A new urgency dictated the velocity at which they moved. Being trapped in the narrow descending eye of the canyon would prove to be fatal if the Cryptid, the Croatoan, chose to pursue them. Blaze recalled the creature’s behavior on the bridge. If anyone had doubted the existence of the creatures before, no one doubted them now

It had considered them. Thoughtfully. Intellectually. It had perhaps even pushed them, rushed them, and then backed off. A knowing coursed through her mind and slowed her steps.

Refusing to look over the ledge of the rock and ice spiral, they worked their way down. She replayed the scene again in her mind. Now and then a foot would move too far and the team would pause until one person or another would regain their balance, as well as their confidence. There were no ropes to prevent their fall, as had been the case with the bridge. Unsteady as that had been, at least they had something to grab for as they crossed, reassuring their survival-driven minds that holding something was better than holding nothing.

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