Heal my Heart

Chapter 43 - Wild Life

"What should we do once we get home?" Gwen asked the group.

The exploration crew was on its way back home and was cheerfully walking after their huge farming discovery the night before. They were all joyfully chatting when Gwen brought the sensitive subject of who could have tried to kill them.

"I think we should lay low." Grizz answered seriously.

"What? Lay low? We can't let this pass, Grizz." someone else said.

"I don't mean to hide what happened, but if we just enter town screaming that Campbell tried to kill us, the bastard will see us coming and will have enough time to hide evidences and come up with a cover story." he explained.

"So, how do we expose him?" Gwen asked.

"Well, we have to get proof so that when we go against him, we're absolutely sure to get justice. I'd say we try to investigate." the healer responded.

"And what about Allie?" she went on.

"What about Allie?" he stopped walking and turned to her.

"Well, apparently I'm not the only one thinking she's got something to hide. It's weird that she insisted on you coming with us to the woods at the same time as she began hanging out with her cousin." Gwen explained.

"Allie has nothing to do with this. As I said, I know her and she'd never try to hurt us like that. She knows how dangerous those woods can be, she was there last time when I went back injured. She's my friend, she'd never do that." he said, trying to convince himself at the same time.

"Well, we'll investigate and see if she really had something to do with all this shit." a guy spoke.

Suddenly, the whole crew stopped dead when they heard a loud wolf howl.

"What the fuck?!" someone said, panicking.

"Nobody moves or speaks." Grizz instructed, scanning the woods and seeing two round yellow eyes looking straight at the group.

Suddenly the eyes turned red and the wolf charged at them, running wildly and growling.

"Everybody, run !" Grizz screamed.

In their mad race, the young man tried to analyze the situation, searching for the cause of this madness. He yelled to the others while running.

"Did you check all the bags?!" he shouted at Gwen.

"Yeah, we did, except for the one that was under you when you were sleeping! We thought it was alright since Grizz 2.0 didn't react!" she answered screaming and running.

"The capsule probably wasn't broken yet. Which bag was it?" Grizz asked seriously.

"Mine." Gwen responded, her face turning white in realization.

"What?! You mean a capsule probably just broke in your bag?!" a guy shouted.

"Gwen! Did you know about that?! Did you do it on purpose?!" someone else joined the conversation, still running.

"No, I didn't! I don't know why it only broke now, I didn't mean to!" she defended herself, but her fellow explorers didn't believe a word she was screaming and began turning against her.

"You traitor! You were on Campbell's side all this time!" someone yelled while racing.

"We should never have trusted you!" some other girl shouted.

"It's not her fault!" Grizz began to take her side when he noticed something alarming.

A few explorers were too tired to keep running and tried to hide behind trees.