CHAPTER 61

As soon as he was maybe half a mile away from the camp, Russel noticed one of the humans suddenly get up and casually start to walk away. They were wearing a large, fur-lined cloak to stave off some of the day’s chill. Despite being hidden under a hood and cloak, Russel could still confirm that the person was indeed Lola. It was in the way she walked and moved through the people. He’d seen that so much over the last several months, it was practically burned into his memory. How could I have blinded myself so completely? It was a fair question. He should have realized she would have tried something like this but he had trusted too completely in Zeo and Enok and the palace guards. Even amidst the anger and absolute frustration he felt, he wondered how she had managed to squeeze by everyone and slide in with the humans. He also wondered how she had managed to stay hidden for so long. Not even Hank, it seemed, realized she had been with them the whole time. Or did he and he just didn’t