Chapter 28
I didn’t quite understand how Sebastien managed the feat, but the soldiers around him obeyed without question. Radios crackled, orders were relayed, and a head count ensued. Within seconds, everyone was awake and accounted for. And then every single one of those uniformed humans was retreating, unit after unit noting current locations as soldiers trotted through the front gates and continued onward into the safety of the encircling forest.
“How?” I asked, staring upward into Sebastien’s hooded eyes. He’d turned off his headlamp so its beam no longer blinded me. But the lowering of my companion’s defenses made him seem less familiar rather than more so, the air infused with secrets we possessed insufficient time to fully talk out.
Rather than answering immediately, Sebastien t
