Chapter Ten
Meikah tried to think of something to say to change the subject, preferring not to talk about dying. She gave up when everyone remained silent. At some stage, she drifted off to sleep, waking when Rafe nudged her, shushing her when she would have spoken.
“Wake everyone.” His voice was little more than a breath of air.
She leaned close to speak to him. “I can’t see.”
“Feel your way.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know, but the place is filled with the scents of other creatures, the smell of death and the horses are unsettled.”
Feeling her way into the back of the wagon, she found Livia first. The shapeshifter was asleep in the coffin. Meikah covered her mouth with her hand, bending close. “Shh. Rafe smells something.”
Livia pushed her hand away, breathing in deeply. “A lot of
