I begin following the scent of fire dragon and earth, making me believe that this young girl is a dragon/elf hybrid.
If, as I suspect, these were once missing human children, it’s just one more reason to find them. If someone were to recognize them and, worse, call the authorities, things would become really bad for the shifter community. It wouldn’t take long for the humans to realize that their children had been experimented on, and who would they blame? One of their own or a shifter? They would always blame us.
I follow her scent out of the city and into the forest. There are others, and I turn to look at Avani.
“One at a time, or do you want to divide and conquer?” I ask.
“Divide and conquer,” he and Merethyl say at the same time.
I lift my nose, smelling the scents of the others
