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EMMY
At first, Nine looked as if she was about to argue with Ana. But either pragmatism struck or she wasn’t feeling quite as confident as she claimed, because she shrugged.
“Shhh.”
If Ana was going, then I was going too. The three of us headed for the path Nine had been on when we originally stumbled across her, and after several steps, I realised why she’d chosen that particular route. She’d been following a blood trail. Not a particularly obvious one, just a drop or two every few yards, but it was there. From the dog? Had to be if she’d tracked it all the way from the store.
Well, this was an unexpected turn of events. Definitely not what I’d been anticipating when I woke up this morning. There’d been times when I’d wondered what happened to Ana’s original comrades, but I’d never
