Bab 225: Infected

"Imani!" Lucas called out after stopping next to one of the dead trees in the area and quickly glanced around. His heart was pounding wildly in his chest while his breath was coming out in short spurts and he couldn't calm down. He could smell blood and death and he desperately hoped Imani wasn't the latter because he would lose himself.

He had beaten himself up on his way back to Bostel where Russell told him that Imani was in the forest. He couldn't stop wondering if Imani was okay and if she had been calling him because of the wolf. What was a wolf even doing out here?

He rushed off in the direction those two scents were coming from and when he came to a stop, he was standing on a circle in the ground that had markings on it. It also had a lot of blood on it... Imani's blood. But where was Imani?