28Ghouls could hide all they wanted from humans and rarely ever be found, but there was no hiding from a Hunter. Lael didn’t bother with formalities or questions. She had all the information she needed and no time for anything more than quick and permanent results. Even as she drifted beneath the pink flowers of a honeysuckle bush on the precipice of a kill, other Ghouls were hunting and feeding. Lael put them from her mind, swirled around the feet of the Ghouls and rose up in a living shawl of power. The pair were covered, smothered and despatched within seconds. Just in time.
Two teenagers wandered, hand in hand, along the track, eyes only for each other, talking, kissing, and not paying any attention to where they were going. Lael doubted they really knew where they were, or how they g
