Chapter 12
A while turned into five long hours, the beginning of which was just high-speed meandering, attempting not to drive around in circles while ensuring the wolves at Wildacres had lost our trail. But then Kira conked out beside me and I had time to fully consider the impossibility of the task I’d set for myself.
I needed to figure out the source of and solution to the illness that had beset my sister. To track down the owner of my mother’s star ball and vanquish the being who had won out over me three months earlier. Those mysteries had seemed unsolvable with Gunner’s vast resources at my disposal. What chance did I have of finding the answers on my own now?
While thinking, I raised my left forearm to my mouth, sucking at the wound I’d self-inflicted in an attempt to escape from
