บท 355: Deep Instincts

Cole followed the woman keeping wary of the moving vines. The deeper they went, the faster they moved and attempted to block their progress. Cole found that he had to dodge a branch that stuck out almost too suddenly. The first time this happened, he looked at the branch and wondered whether it had been trying to knock him unconscious.

After a few more times, however, once when he had to leap over the approaching root and another when he had to completely evade one aiming for his stomach, he was becoming more convinced that he wasn't a special guest at all, "I thought you said they were going to try and keep the others out, but not the three of us," the man asked her, dodging yet another one, pulling his unconscious mate closer to his body.