I didn’t wait for their response. I took a deep breath to capture her scent. I caught it, barely and followed it down the road Hasmik had pointed to.
I tore through the streets like a storm, tracing her scent with the sharp, honed instinct of a predator, but each trail ended coldly.
I followed a thread of her down a crowded corridor. I pushed myself harder, running like a man on drugs through the street, shoving people away and pushing carts or anything that stood in my way, following that thread I got so desperately. And then the scent went cold again, mixing with the overwhelming scent of the bustling species.
Khragnir was a large kingdom filled with lots of different species and it was impossible to find her through the throng of people but I found myself running again, not following
