Chapter 83
Quade and Rachel had barely gone an eighth of a mile when Kohler and the other villagers stepped in front of them. Rachel screamed. They tried to run, but Webber and Tieg caught them and tied their hands behind their back.
The villagers led them back along the trampled deer path Quade and Rachel had already walked and found Lionel sitting alone on a felled tree.
“Where is everyone else?” Kohler demanded.
Lionel looked around. Charlotte was gone. “Dead. Running. I have no idea,” he replied wearily.
“We’ll go after them,” Kohler said, then turned to Sam Black. “Black, take these three back to the village. When we return, we'll teach them what happens to people who run away.”
About halfway back to the village, Quade slipped his thin hands free of the ropes that bound them. He
