Chapter: 14

Alexander.

She’s wedged in between two rocks at the riverbank, covered in various tree fronds and weeds that have been flowing down the river with her. She looks so very pale, dressed in what was once a white dress which was now in tatters and blotched by brown stains. Her long, dark hair falls all over her face. As soon as I see her, I’m almost certain she’s dead by how lifeless she looks. But upon moving closer to her, I realize that she’s breathing, albeit weakly.

We turn back into our human forms immediately.

“Holy shit, that’s a girl,” Matthew, the wolf who initially found her, hisses, his eyes wide.

“Yeah,” I mutter, stepping closer to her. This is truly a bizarre thing to witness, “She looks like she’d been swept down by the river.”

“She’s still alive, isn’t she?” Avery questions, “Because I think I just so her chest move.”

“She’s alive,” Craig confirms.

He then walks towards her, “Help me get her out of the rocks,” she tells me, and I rush towards him. Together, we pick the gi