Monster Girl VIII by Julie Law

Author:Julie Law [Law, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Have you found anything?”

It wasn’t as if I wanted to bother Mei exactly, but we had been in the same place for about five minutes, and she didn’t seem to know which path to follow. Not that I could blame her. It rained during the night, making the tracks we had been following messier.

I wasn’t an expert on the matter, but I could still see that it seemed like the tracks had parted in two different directions. Mei sighed. “There had to be at least two devourers in the group; they split up here.” She said, shaking her head. “I can’t tell much more than that, can’t really figure out which of the groups was larger. The tracks are too faint for that. From here on out, we’ll only be able to track the devourers themselves, not their slaves.”

I frowned. “That doesn’t really change much, does it? We figured we were probably going to have to do that already.”

Mei shrugged. “We just have to pick which path to follow then.”

I looked from one set of tracks to the other, then I was the one that shrugged. “If you can’t figure out anything about them, then this is pretty much a matter of luck, right? Then just pick one randomly, and hopefully, it will take us to our objective.”

After another glance around, Mei picked the left path, again taking point. I followed her and felt Sigrid do the same.

It didn’t take long for Mei to find something that made her pause again. She raised a hand and made us still, then reached out and pulled at something against the bark of a tree. I had to squint my eyes to notice that it seemed like a spider’s web. Quite a bit thicker than those from Earth, and it seemed old, but there was no doubt about what it was. Mei’s hands tightened into fists once again.

“There are spiderlings about.”

I frowned. “Couldn’t that be Arachne herself laying these webs?”

“I suppose it is possible, but I doubt it.” Mei shook her head. “Better to assume there might be spiders around.”

We were assuming that already, if for nothing else because considering the worst scenario and hoping for the best was better than the alternative.

The tension seemed to ratchet up as we continued, and it wasn’t hard to figure out why. Quickly enough, we found other webs, and more than that, we found remains. We weren’t sure remains of what, exactly. Maybe it had been a small monster of some kind, or at least I hoped so. I didn’t want to think those might have been the remains of a thinking being. Everything I’ve heard about Arachne made me think it might have very well been.

I shook my head, didn’t let the sight bother me for long. We needed to find Arachne and whatever devourers might be with her and kill them all if possible. It would rid us all of a powerful enemy.

As we advanced, the woods seemed to get darker, and shivers raced down my spine.

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