Chapter 20
The girl was gone.
Tyler had watched her run. He’d even been foolish enough to yell down to her to not run, giving away his location to the monsters.
After that, he’d had to move out of his perch fast, before a wolfkin could find him. He stood on his branch, waiting a heartbeat or two to get his balance on the rocking branch.
One of the beasts was already snarling below him, leaping onto the lowest branch of Tyler’s tree.
Tyler targeted a branch that looked large enough to hold him. It was farther away than he liked, but it wasn’t an impossible distance.
One more heartbeat to steady his nerves, then he leapt from his branch.
He missed.
As he flew past his intended branch, he managed to grab another.
The branch jerked violently, threatening to snap under his weight. Hand
