CHAPTER FOUR
“Time to rise!”
The shout startled me awake and I shot up. I was greeted by a faint mist that floated through the woods around me. A crackling fire staved off the worst of the airy chill of the morning air.
Tegan was bent over the fire with a skillet set on a flat rock in front of him. His transformed right arm clutched the hot handle without issue. A sizzling noise came from the pan and the scent of meat floated over to me. I inhaled deeply and my reaction earned a chuckle from my companion.
“I’m glad to see you’re not particular about your meat,” he mused as he used a two-pronged fork to move around the food.
I c****d my head to one side. “Should I be?”
He shrugged. “Well, it’s not everyone who would be willing to eat forest rat.”
My face drooped and my eyes wi
