CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Help, I need somebody, Help.
“You?” I asked.
“Where did you get this Shadow Hound?” He didn’t even acknowledge me.
“In one of the alleys. Why did you save me?”
He didn’t answer.
“Who are you?” I asked as he stopped examining her injuries.
No, no, no, she couldn’t be gone. She’d been breathing just breathing a couple of minutes ago. I pushed him out of the way, which he hadn’t expected, and leaned over her body.
She was still moving.
Why wasn’t he helping her?
“Why did you help it?” he asked.
Something told me I shouldn’t tell him that she’d communicated with me. So instead I said, “It’s cruel to leave a living creature to die. I couldn’t do it.”
“This is a Shadow Hound. It was executed, sentenced to death. Do you know what they’d do to both of you if they find y
