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Correct!” Kiera said. “But don’t forget that the toe of the
shoe will be more pronounced, again suggesting running instead of
merely walking.”
    “ So what happened when they reached this point?” I
asked.
    “ They stood and talked to whoever she was,” Kiera said. “You
can see by the spread of prints they stood here for a little while
before heading off through the trees with the female.”
    “ Where did they go?” I tried to follow the prints, but the snow
just looked like a trampled mess.
    “ Let’s find out,” Kiera said, setting off between the
trees.
    We
followed behind as she sometimes raced ahead, then slowed to an
almost standstill. She would inspect the ground again, then set
off. We followed at a distance, both of us mindful not to get in
her way or destroy any evidence. Then, up ahead, Kiera came to a
sudden halt.
    “ What’s wrong?” I asked, joining her beneath a large oak
tree.
    “ The tracks just suddenly stop,” Kiera said with a frown,
looking down at the ground. “It’s like the three of them just
vanished.”
    “ Vanished?” Murphy grunted.
    “ Perhaps this other person they met was a Vampyrus and they
flew away?” I suggested, believing it to be a reasonable
possibility.
    “ Sam’s a wolf and can’t fly,” Murphy said.
    “ Maybe Kayla carried him?” I said, not wanting my theory to be
proved wrong – not just seconds after formulating it.
    “ And perhaps an army of pixies appeared and sprayed them all
with magic disappearing dust?” Murphy scowled at me.
    “ No one flew away,” Kiera cut in, as if trying to diffuse the
growing tension between me and Murphy.
    “ How can you tell?” I asked her.
    Looking
up, Kiera said, ‘See how the branches of the trees are so close
together? If they had flown away from here, they would have
disturbed the branches and the snow would have fallen away. But as
you can see, they are still covered in a thick layer of
snow.”
    “ So what do you think happened to them?” Murphy
asked.
    “ I don’t know,” Kiera whispered thoughtfully. “I just don’t
know.”
    “ Well, standing out here isn’t going to help us find them,”
Murphy said, turning away. “Good job, Kiera, but if the tracks have
run cold, then we need to start looking someplace else.”
    “ Where?” I asked, watching him walk away.
    “ Kayla and Sam knew we were heading for the Fountain of Souls
and the Dead Waters,” Murphy said, glancing back at us. “Perhaps
they will head there.”
    “ But how can they have just vanished, into thin air?” I
frowned. “And who is this female they were talking to? Kayla
wouldn’t have just walked away and left me and Murphy to get the
shit kicked out of us. How do we know Teen Wolf hasn’t taken her,
we don’t even know if we can trust him? You know what happens to a
human who has been badly matched to a wolf, they turn in to those
freaky fucking berserkers! Sam might have become one of them and
eaten Kayla.”
    “ Have you been sniffing fucking glue?” Murphy rounded on me.
“Jesus Christ, you make Sam sound like the big bad wolf out of
little-red-freaking-riding-hood!”
    I looked
at Kiera, and without saying a word, she set off after Murphy. I
followed at a distance as we made our way out of the small woods
and back across the field. I looked back and could see the barn
where I had been tricked into believing that teacher had been
Kiera. I remembered how I had killed the wolf-boy, Dorsey, and how
that hooded photographer had appeared and taken a photo of him dead
in my arms. I looked away, and it was then I saw several of those
creepy statues standing in a row on the other side of the field. I
opened my mouth to call out after Kiera and Murphy. But what was
the point? Neither of them seemed to be interested in anything I
had to say. I closed my mouth, turned away from the statues, and
caught up with Kiera and Murphy.
    As I
walked silently alongside them, Murphy looked sideways at Kiera,
and trying to sound