~ Chapter Thirteen - Season II ~

As we arrived at the stables, no one was waiting for us.

I looked around once more, making sure that I’m not missing anything or anyone.

“I thought you said your friend’s here,” I said, turning to her.

“I hid her somewhere here. I’ll go ahead and get her,” she replied as she walked away.

“This won’t take long, right?” I asked, putting my hands behind my back.

She didn’t answer and began checking each empty stable. When there was no sign of someone hiding inside the stables, she went back to where she started and began knocking three times on the wooden gates.

“Mallory?” a voice suddenly came from the very last stable, one where Elizabeth’s horse was being kept.

Mallory rushed over to that stable. As she looked over the gate, she talked to someone I couldn't see, “What are you doing in there?” Mallory quickly opened the gate, careful not to let the horse escape. I started to hear shuffling where Mallory was.

“You told me to hide,” a faint voice replied as I heard more shuffling