Chapter 119

I need to think about survival now, even if that means ending up naked and backpack less, miles further into the undergrowth. I just need to find another way to gather the things I need later and curse myself stupid for venturing this way, near this damned building. It’s not an inconspicuous power station. Those men were guards, and whatever they were guarding was important enough to carry weapons and stay in the multiples. I’m so goddamn stupid. Fuck you, Sierra, and your damn dreams and pushing me east. Fuck the Fates. Fuck Colton for making me leave the mountain, and fuck Juan for being the root of all my woes and how shitty my life has been for a decade. This is all his fault! I turn. My inner wolf almost howling with an intense release, glad to be free, finally. Head down, clothes shredding pitifully as I leave the last of my worldly possessions in the dirt and run like the wind. I can do nothing else about it now, and they are in fast pursuit. I fall, wedging between trees too cl