8

I could have screamed and cried with joy when I realized that the door was not locked and that there was no one waiting for me on the other side.

As fast as my legs would carry me, I ran in the opposite direction that the two werewolves had disappeared.

I looked around for a place where I could easily climb a tree.

In just a few minutes, I found a tree that met my requirements below, with relatively sturdy branches within reach, but which the werewolves would certainly not be able to support.

Still somewhat restricted by this strange remedy, I grabbed the first branches.

Only when I was about four meters above the ground did I allow myself a brief moment to breathe deeply.

Meanwhile, I quickly orientated myself in the branches of the trees and planned my further course of action.

Since the branches here unfortunately didn't offer enough foliage as protection, I climbed a bit higher.

Only when I was about ten meters high and I could no longer see the ground through all the leaves.

I moved nimbly from one tree to the next.

Where it was easy for me, I climbed half a meter to a meter higher here and there.

I hurried as best I could. After all, I had no way of knowing how long the two beasts would be distracted, or if they would send someone else to check on me.

When I had already moved quite a bit away, I noticed how dark it was.

A quick look up showed me that the Natzr was probably on my side.

The sky kept getting overcast with clouds that promised a heavy rain shower.

While this would make climbing a bit more difficult, it would also wash away my scent tracks and make it harder for the werewolves.

My chances of a successful escape were getting better and better.

"I'll make you proud," I murmured softly, glancing up at the sky. Somewhere where my family's souls should be. In any case, my mother had been convinced that the people you loved who died would still die watched over you from above after her death.

Right now this thought was also very comforting.

The first thick raindrops fell from the sky. It quickly became more and more and more. It didn't take long until I was hidden here between the leaves of the trees on the I took a deep

breath in and out through my nose and continued on my way,

my way that could lead me anywhere else, as long as it was away from here.

However, the calm that I felt at that moment was gone in one fell swoop.

Namely at the moment when I could hear two wolves howling from a distance.

You really didn't have to be creative to figure out it was the twins.

And to my horror, more and more wolves joined in, including one that seemed not far away from me.

My heart felt like it skipped a beat.

How the hell could I have known that a werewolf was so close to me?!

But since he was a little way, about a hundred meters, away from me, I just hoped that he hadn't noticed me yet.

On the tree I was sitting on, I quickly and quietly looked for a spot that hopefully wasn't visible from below.

Now it was time to hold out until they no longer suspected me in this area and would look elsewhere.

I sat down on a thick branch with my back to the tree trunk and closed my eyes. Hopefully the branches to the left and right of that would keep me from going down.

I woke up to something touching my cheek.

I grimaced reluctantly, but kept my eyes closed. I would have preferred to have slept longer, especially as I was still cold from the rain.

"Come on, wake up. We want to go home."

I widened my eyes in shock.

One of the werewolves was sitting on the branch in front of me.

I cried out in panic and tried to get to my feet as quickly as possible to flee from him, but I was a lot too slow for that.

Before I could even push myself up, he had already grabbed me and pulled me to him.

"Oh dear, you're still completely soaked from the rain."

I tried somehow to get away from him, but he was much too strong.

,,Hatch! We're coming down now.", he called down to his twin, who was probably standing below.

How did they find me?!

Didn't the rain wipe out all traces?

"Hold on tight," said the twin, the one up here was with me, pressed my head against his chest and just jumped off the branch.

I screamed and feared that branches would hit me at any moment, but we were back on the ground within two seconds.

"Oh dear, I think she's hypothermic." "

Yes, and the leaves weren't exactly the best protection either. The best thing would be to bring them home quickly."

The two quickly made their way back, one with me in his arms. They had quite a speed and I could barely resist holding on to this beast.

Inside I cursed the whole time. How the hell did you please find me so quickly?

This technique had worked a few times before. Why not now?

We were quickly back at the house and the other twin closed the door behind us.

"Come on little one, you have to get out of the masses of things." One of the two talked to me.

Why did they speak to me directly at all? Otherwise they had still talked about me.

"Don't look so puzzled little one. Mirko , who happened to see you leave the house, heard you."

I tried not to let my shock show, even if my pulse was racing.

Had another werewolf really seen and followed me, or had this Mirko perhaps even been a human being who had betrayed me in order to be on good terms with the monsters.

But that was absurd. A human could never have heard me. Probably not even if he had been standing right under the tree.

It was probably the guy I just saw walking away.

I should have just kept climbing you...

"Don't look so gloomy. We know you don't want to be here, but with all this, none of us has a choice anymore. Neither we, nor you.

But first you really should get out of your wet clothes. Otherwise you will get really sick. And considering you're not even fully recovered from your coma, that wouldn't be desirable right now. After that, it would be best for us to negotiate how the whole thing goes on here and also explain a few things to you.

Stubborn, but also a bit scared, I looked away from the two. Maybe I could pretend that I didn't understand them. So that they would believe that the other werewolf might have made a mistake. But I had to admit to myself that my "I don't understand you" number had come to an end.

Damned! I just should have been more careful.

If I hadn't mumbled those few words, at least they wouldn't know I understood them.

I could already imagine how they will try to manipulate me from now on.