Chapter 37

Mother Jaguar had spent most of the night searching the forest and finding next to nothing. Now that the sun was up, she tried to hide her disappointment as she continued on, her land rider moving through the trees more quickly than the Mothers that were on foot, which was what had allowed her to reach the front line in a matter of hours. Not that it had made any difference. The only rebels that had escaped the initial battle had been located hours ago, on the other side of the town, headed toward Aricornia.

Despite Lightning’s confessions and all of the information White had gotten from her when she’d shot Hurricane, the forest was expansive, and these rebels had tools the Motherhood couldn’t combat. Tablets that told them where the Mothers were located, so long as they had their monitors on, which they had to keep on in order to communicate with one another. Shields that hid fire and smoke. Another device that would keep the hounds fr