Chapter 5
Mia studied the ground in front of her. This was no exercise and she was not as keen and excited as she would have been if she was tracking, say, a lion.
She had picked up a clear footprint, a running shoe, near the edge of the road and it had been relatively easy to hold on to the trail until now. They were close to the Manzini Spruit, where the man had been spotted on the Vulture system.
Bongani came up beside her. ‘What do you see?’
She pointed to the flattened clump of grass, and then ahead of them. ‘He is moving, but not in the direction where he was first seen.’
‘There are two of them, maybe?’
‘I’m not sure,’ she said. ‘These tracks are fresh-fresh and we would have seen another man here, easily. I think he has moved while we were driving.’
Bongani nodded slowly. ‘A
