The Pack's Rebels
he continued away from the riverbank and through the trees, the foliage changing underfoot from rich, moist compost to clumps of tough, reedy grasses.
These grasses were the reason that neither vampire nor Karifa had bothered with this grassland. The clumps were deeply rooted and proliferate. As quickly as the grass could be stripped from the soil to make way for crops, it would grow back in, requiring constant tending to prevent it taking over garden beds and fields.
This was also why past colonist’s holdings had seemed to disappear. Wilhelma and the vampires had cleaned up after their feast, not wishing to upset the Karifa with the evidence, and had taken apart any structure that were left