The Assassin
I push harder, running as fast as I can, but his elven DNA is giving him superhuman speed and I’m struggling to catch this hybrid.
Up ahead, I can smell the air, the wind as it blows off the cliffs of the mountain where the water falls to the lake below. Just as I hear the air around the hybrid shift, I hear Avani growl above me and see him dive quickly.
“Nooooooo!” I hear a male voice scream in anger and then Avani is flying, slowly lifting himself above the cliff face, one talon closed around the hybrid that he must have caught in mid-air.
I shift, panting at the cross-country sprint that this hybrid took me on. As Avani lands, holding the talon up so the hybrid isn’t crushed, I lean over
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