I pull myself to my knees and then gasp, painful inhalation, and grunt, as I m winded by a backward kick to the head that sends me reeling as a wolf jumping over knocks me for six and fastens onto Carmen with a ferocious bite. We didn t see them coming.
She howls out in rage, and pain, and claws at it latched onto her back, trying to dislodge it as I muster enough energy to help. I throw the last ball of pure energy I can pull together, and it sends it cascading off into a groaning heap, mere feet away. It s long enough for Carmen to get the better of it and she hauls it across the leaf strewn basin and throws it hard, and furiously, out of our hideaway.
We have to move. Now!
She catches my arm in her mouth, that commanding snidey tone on show once more, and tugs me hard as she can to g
