~ JESSE ~
I had been walking for hours. At first I'd cried a lot, the humiliation and anger roiling in my stomach because I couldn't stop seeing those images Maya had shared, or thinking of all the wolves seeing them… but I quickly pulled myself together.
I was alone in the forest, heading towards the city, but still with at least a day's travel if I couldn't find a ride. I knew there was a house out here somewhere. A cabin. I thought I was following a path, but it was so faint, and at times I wasn't even sure it wasn't just the roll of the land between tree roots. So I wasn't sure I would even find it.
Rake had shown me images a few times, along with instructions on how to use the sun's position to make certain I was heading in the right direction. But that did me zero good in the midnight black around me.
