*Isabella*
The rogue’s a grinnin’ at me like he just found his next meal. I stop dead in my tracks and stare at him, sizing him up. He’s way bigger than me, but he’s scrawny. I bet he ain’t as fast as me, and I bet he ain’t even that strong.
Still, when he bares his teeth and growls at me, I think twice about going at him. Instead, I take a step back. He starts to chuckle a bit in the back of his throat, like he knows somethin’ I don’t.
That’s when I smell another rogue somewhere nearby, and I have to wonder if he ain’t comin’ from behind me.
Backing up is probably a bad idea. But I can’t go forward neither.
‘Pa?’ I say through the mind-link. ‘I gotta problem.’
‘Where are you, Izzy?’ he says back in that tone that tells me he’s annoyed. ‘Ma said you was on your way.’
‘I was.’
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