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ARTEMIS AKA WOLF

I stare down at my gun as I storm off in the opposite direction from the rest of the group with Viktor hot on my heels.

The air tastes foul and smells of death. My body aches with the desire to plummet my hands into something hard; preferably Aleksanders' face.

I roll my head, clicking my neck as I try to keep my shit together and loosen the tension that is clinging to my aching muscles like a filthy parasite.

I have so much pent-up anger inside me that I am about to combust; explode.

Then out of nowhere, my prayers have been answered when a blood-curdling scream breaks through the air. It's enough to bring me to a complete standstill, almost to my knees.

I stop in my tracks, spinning around as I try to decipher where the scream came from.

"Red," I mumble.

"I heard it too," Viktor says softly as he too looks around the woods. "Up there," He hisses, pointing up the small bank where we can see shadows shuffling about.

I dont wait.

I take off running, pumping my legs