Mỷrἇ and Jåcóbӱ had been on the run for several months. The men that Ştårbrîghţ had known were on their trail. Jåcóbӱ had done his best to elude them, but they were expert trackers and they were catching up. The siblings had taken to spending almost all of their time in the trees. They could travel faster that way and the men pursuing them didn't seem overly fond of traveling in the trees.
"They are gaining Mỷrἇ. They will catch up to us within the next day or two."
Jåcóbӱ stood up from where he had been studying the tracks. He looked in the direction that the tracks had gone. Mỷrἇ watched him and remained silent. They were in trouble. The trackers would soon realize that they had been duped and double back to where Mỷrἇ and Jåcóbӱ were.
"What are we to do Jåcóbӱ?"
Jåcóbӱ shrugged as he looked where Mỷrἇ was standing. "I don't know Mỷrἇ. We are blind in this forest. Ştårbrîghţ lied to us the entire time we were with him. I'm not sure what to do."
Mỷrἇ looked to the west. She knew the direction they were going from the way the sun came through the trees. Something foreign kept tugging her west. She knew not why, but west was where they should be going. Mỷrἇ pointed in the direction that they should go.
"We should go west Jåcóbӱ. Something keeps telling me that west is where we will find what we need."
Jåcóbӱ looked the direction she was pointing. He sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "If you say that we must go west then west we will go. We've both learned not to ignore your strange tugging sensation. It's better than staying here."
Mỷrἇ stopped Jåcóbӱas he went to climb back up into the canopy. "Not the trees."
Jåcóbӱ frowned at Mỷrἇ. "Why not?"
Mỷrἇ shrugged easily as she looked uneasily into the trees. "I'm not sure, but I'm getting the sense that we should stay down here from now on."
Jåcóbӱ shook his head as he turned and started running lightly between the tree roots and debris that littered the forest floor. Mỷrἇ took off after her brother. Her thoughts were turned inwards even as she was aware of the forest. Mỷrἇ knew that Jåcóbӱ would protect her as they ran on the ground. He had an almost supernatural power of knowing when something was going to happen. It'd always been there, but the older he got the stronger his sense became. It was the same withMỷrἇ and her tugging sensation. It seemed to be getting stronger and that worried her.
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The Ancients A Tale of Survival
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