BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
"Do it again, little wolf, and I will cook every soul in that cavern until you walk back into my hands."
The image snapped out.
In the raw dark that followed, the river roared louder ahead, and behind us the tunnel filled with boots.
Lots of boots.
Ezra turned first, blade wet, eyes sharp with ugly understanding. "She is herding us."
"No," Caspian said, and the Beast was fully in his voice now. "She is cornering us."
He looked down at me through the smoke. There was love there. Real love. And under it, something harder.