Chapter 18
A rustling sound made the girl jerk back to the right. She backed up as something large came at her.
Tyler pulled his bow, ready to shoot as soon as he could see a target. But all he could see were shadows.
His muscles tensed at the sound of something large crashing through the underbrush.
A huge shape came barreling out of the shadows, making the girl yelp and jump out of the way.
It was a wagon.
It crashed into a tree and toppled onto its side with the wheels still spinning.
The wagon was one of Tyler’s. The cage in the back was twisted and bent, as if the metal bars had been crushed beneath the weight of a boulder. But he would have heard it if there had been a smash big enough to bend metal.
A cold thought slithered through him. It hadn’t been a boulder that had smas
