Nephilim Quest 1 Shadowhunter / 3. Shadow on the Trail
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Someone… Something is observing them from the shadows of the forest…
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Nephilim Quest 1 Shadowhunter / 3. Shadow on the Trail
Fear was haunting the trees in the shape of a shadow looking for prey.
The prey was unknown, but the shadow continued to circle the forest in search of it because the ancient mind that controlled it told it to do so.
Scent was the shadow's text book, telling it whole stories of the forest. The smell of life, death, the old and the new mixed with the fresh smell of trees and plants.
The shadow felt uncomfortable here. This was not its natural domain and it usually visited this world only in the hours of darkness. All this fresh growing forest energy that created new things on its own was a mystery to it. Where all the energy came from, the shadow could not understand. No one had moulded it or created it, at least not in ways that the shadow could ever have comprehended. The energy simply seemed to seep on its own from the ground, or out of the very air around it.
Then its nose picked up the scent of a wounded animal and its spirits lifted. It sped on for a few minutes, following the smell of dried blood on the ground, and found the carcass of an almost completely eaten deer.
The shadow tasted what was left of the animal, though it wasn't hungry. It was good. The energy of the dead body felt familiar to it. It gave the shadow some strength. Invigorated, it continued its silent, aimless circling around the old trees. Like the wind, no-one would ever have seen it if they hadn't paid attention to the sudden silence of birds and little animals wherever the shadow went.
Then it heard something moving, hidden by the foliage. A snuffling type of breathing. The wind brought the scent to its nostrils.
A dog - and not just any dog. It had smelled this one before, by the road before the girl had been killed. There had been an accident, and the shadow had been there. Had - participated in the accident.
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