Chapter 26
Not wanting to tempt my luck further, I re-hid Lucinda’s cellphone as quickly as possible before slipping into my fur form and sprinting into the trees. Because if an innocent human was coming to visit this evening, it had become even more imperative that I track down the Master now.
Unfortunately, the world was working against me. At first, the diffuse sprinkles making their way through the canopy felt good against my heated fur and the skin underneath it. But then the sky darkened to twilight, and abruptly it began to pour.
So, okay, I’d navigate back to the meeting spot based on landmarks rather than on scent trails. Over the hill behind me, past that gnarled mammoth of a something-or-other tree, then across the abruptly raging creek....
There had been at least a tendril
