Chapter 318

We waited for about five minutes, Brigitte coming back alone, with Alicia’s clothes folded up which she stuck in her knapsack. Bonnie wanted to ask a question, but Brigitte told her to can it. I knew what was up. The fact that he’d gone up the same trail meant it needed to be scouted ahead of us, and who better to do it, than a wolf.

About fifteen minutes more into our hike, a wolf howled in the distance. Brigitte got an expression of total satisfaction on her face. Three minutes later, two more wolves howled. The other hikers on the trail got worried. I wondered when was the last time anyone saw a wolf in Zion, and I’d just heard three of them. I could tell from their voices they were all different. I assumed the first one was Alicia. Who knew who the other two were.

We eventually came up on the two hikers. They were jammed up against some rocks with five wolves arranged around them, growling menacingly and showing their fangs, foam slavering from their mouths like rabi