Chapter 28: Rayne.

“Matt, find Simon and Tim. I want the three of you to walks the agitated horses out and to put them into one of the empty paddocks to calm down. Go!”

“Yes, Rayne!”

After he leaves, I look around the stables carefully, but I don’t see anything unusual so, I leave and walk over to the hay barn instead.

As soon as I enter, I can smell something that doesn’t belong here, so I follow the smell and find a box that is emitting some kind of pheromone. I bend down to inspect it when I hear something to my right that causes me to freeze place.

“Ssssssss, Chchchchchch!”

Slowly, I turn my head and in the corner of the barn, near a small hole in the wall, I see it, a Rattlesnake!

I attempt to assess the creature from a distance, and I estimate that it is about 4 ft in length which is the common average for an adult. It has dark diamond-shaped patterns along its back, which tell me that I am dealing wit