Chapter 49
Melisse and Devlin inspected the area where Vince had gone to sulk the night before. He had run back to camp howling, screaming, and blithering that human-looking monsters had stared at him and wanted to kill him. Or eat him. Or tear him limb from limb.
The two found no tracks or signs that anyone or anything had been out there.
The group broke camp and hiked for two hours before they spotted a creek. They stopped. Hunger made them weak. They had little hope of catching fish with their wooden hooks and grassy lines, but they needed to try.
Rachel and Brandi searched for nuts, roots, and berries. Rempart and Vince found firewood. Devlin and Melisse fished.
Devlin had fished many times with his father. Now, slack-jawed, he looked down into the creek. Suppressing a whoop of jo
