All day long Hannah had the uneasy feeling that she was being watched. She kept scanning the trees and the ridgelines, but she couldn’t find the source of her unease. She’d briefly forgot her anxiety while she’d been playing around with Michael in the pond, but as soon as she darted back into the forest she felt it pressing heavily on her again, like a physical hand holding tight to the back of her neck. She slipped away from the game trail that she and Michael had used to access the pond, and quickly shifted back into her wolf form. With her wolf’s enhanced senses, she put her nose in the air and searched for a scent that didn’t belong. At first, she found nothing, but then the wind shifted and her lupine nose was assaulted by the sour smell of human sweat. More than one, and they w
