#Chapter 488: No Way Home

Nina The morning sun came too soon. None of us slept for more than a few minutes. Either we were too frightened and just didn’t want to admit it, or our minds were whirling with too many possibilities. I spent the remaining hours of the nighttime laid out on the mattress, letting the shaman’s medicine work its magic, while Daphne and Enzo paced nervously around the little hut. “The veil here is thicker,” Daphne explained, her nails practically bitten down to nubs from chewing on them all night. “The place where it’s thinner is still days away if we move on foot. And who knows how much time we have left before they find our trail again? God, we never should have stopped.” Enzo scoffed and shook his head for the millionth time. “If you don’t want to be here, Daphne, then leave,” he scolded. “But I had to get my wife someplace where she could be helped. She’s pregnant. I won’t just wander through the woods with her for days when she’s in so much pain she can barely speak.”