I lifted my brows at her comment, and when Guthrie didn’t mention any danger factor, I bit my lip, wondering if I should just ask about that. “Er, okay. But it just doesn’t seem that…safe to me.”
“Because it’s not,” Guthrie answered bluntly. “But we’re in a hurry, and this is a small enough party. Just follow my lead, step where I step, and we should be fine.”
“Okay. Cool. You know the way through all this, then, right? Because—”
“Would I have led us this way if I hadn’t known how to navigate the terrain?”
“Um…” I really didn’t know him well enough to answer that, but I felt compelled to say, “I guess not. But do you—”
He cut me off with a growl and jerked around in his seat to glare at me. I’m guessing it was a glare, anyway. In this light, shrouded by the thorns and bushes, I couldn
