Derek
The lock of blonde hair arrived the next morning after scouring the area around where Aeliana disappeared. One of the patrol wolves brought it in, under similar circumstances as the scent from the morning. The second she tried to follow the unfamiliar scent, it disappeared. But the lock of hair was obviously Aeliana's, even if the tiny scrap of paper rolled around it was not.
Follow the breadcrumbs. You have two days.
"Take me to where this was found," I said immediately.
"Yes Alpha," the patrol wolf replied.
Twenty minutes later, we were at the border, less than a quarter mile away from where Aeliana was taken. When we arrived, I lifted my head in the air and inhaled deeply.
At first, all I could smell was the woody scent of hardwoods, pine pitch, and earth. But then the breez
