#Chapter 79 Turned
The secret passage led to the stables where three horses stood in stalls. Daphne figured it was luck. She took one horse, stroking its head to keep it calm before leading it out of the stables around the side of the building. Mamie shifted into her wolf form first. The other two followed suit and they crept around the building carefully until they reached the forest.
“Which way do we go?” one of them asked.
“West.” Daphne said, “We should be close enough to see the canyon. Help me up.”
Mamie gave her a hand so she could climb a tree nearby. It made her think of her childhood in the forest. These trees were different from the ones near her cabin, but she found her footing and pulled herself onto the lowest branch before climbing higher as Mamie and the women kept watch. She pushed the branches apart and looked into the night, scanning the skyline until she found the dark figures, like a smudge of darkness against the starry sky, in the distance.
