From the moment Chiron saw the sticky substance on the male egg, he knew he was done for. The only means of salvation was running as fast as he could to the location the elders had left them.
But he could not leave Nora behind. She was the ticket he needed for acquiring aura. If anything happened to her, he would take another couple of years before he could acquire usable energy.
At the moment, he had gone too far to back off now. He needed to push forward with everything he had.
But it was not just enough to run. He needed to run fast.
Chiron's training had been going good, and he had achieved a level of physical capability that many people only read about in books. But against an animal that was literally built to hunt, Chiron's achievement was practically nothing.
As if that was not disadvantage enough, this was a forest area. The ground was terribly uneven, with bumps and stones. One wrong move and he could dislocate his ankle.
