Zotar by Ava York & Starr Huntress

Author:Ava York & Starr Huntress [York, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwalk Publishing
Published: 2020-08-26T05:00:00+00:00

Zotar

The sun was already hanging high in the sky when I picked up the trail again. I had followed the path left by the Ripper I had killed and, after getting across the river, I’d lost it in its entirety. It took me a couple of hours before I found it again.

“I don’t see anything,” Natalie said, hands on her hips as she stared at the ground. Her eyebrows were knitted, and there was an expression of intense focus on her face. “What exactly are you looking for? There are no broken twigs or anything.”

“Following a trail isn’t just about broken twigs,” I told her, slowly picking up a couple of pebbles from the ground. I held one of them up. “See this one? The moss should be covering it, but the part that’s clear is facing up. That means someone must’ve overturned it. They probably bumped against it as they were coming through.”

“That makes sense,” she whispered, crouching beside me and grabbing one of the pebbles. “I still don’t know how you can notice it, though. There’s so much around us.”

“I’ve been doing this for years,” I replied. “It takes practice but, once you get the hang of it, small details like these jump out at you.” I stood up and scanned my surroundings, the signs that someone had come through here clear to my trained eye. “Come on, we shouldn’t be far now.”

We kept on going the rest of the way in absolute silence, careful not to make a noise. If the Rippers were in the vicinity, we didn’t want to alert them to our presence. They were probably already on edge, as it was. Although I was pretty sure they hadn’t found the body of the one I had killed, the lack of radio communication would alert them that something had happened.

We continued for an hour more, our pace constant. We only stopped when we came across a steep slope, the moss-covered ground turning into a cliff of jagged rocks. Grabbing a rope from my bag, I tossed it to Natalie.

“See that sturdy tree?” I pointed and she nodded. “Tie the rope around it with one of those knots I showed you.” Her fingers worked deftly on the end of the rope, and I smiled approvingly. I tied the other end of the rope around my waist and stepped toward the edge. My instincts kicked in, and I felt the urge to check Natalie’s knot. I didn’t, trusting her. “Alright, I’m going down.”

With that, I went over the lip of the cliff, my boots crunching the rock as I made my way down. Natalie stood at the top, feeding me all the rope I needed to lower myself. Even if I had been doing this with another trained operative, I would’ve double checked the rope and the knots, but I was past that with Natalie. I wasn’t sure how it had happened, but I trusted her enough to put my life in her hands.

“Alright, now you,” I said, then watched her make the climb down.

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