Chapter 3
Yaliana’s leg was on fire. All this running was sending shooting pain up and down her leg, and it was only pure determination that was keeping her from simply collapsing. The shrikes chased them for a surprisingly long time, and all the while, she and Ulissa were running further and further into the jungle. If only they had picked a different direction to escape.
Running pell-mell through the jungle was the best way to get them lost, but the shrikes were still chasing them, pecking at exposed flesh and battering them with their wings. Would these things never give up?
Yaliana thought her leg would give out, and was literally on her last legs when she realized the pecking and buffeting had disappeared. The shrikes were gone.
Ulissa stopped and bent over, panting hard. Yaliana
