Chapter 46: France

The forest is dark and quiet, the mountain cold. It's grown colder still since the sun went down, a fact I barely noticed on the motorcycle ride, thanks to adrenaline giving me extra heat, and the press of Sage's overheated body against mine. Now my breath puffs in patches of mist before me as Sage and I creep through the Austrian night away from Castle Wilhelm and the searching witches ordered to bring us in.

The Enforcers will have set up a ward around the castle property by now. I'll need to find a way through it if we are to escape. The moment we touch it, try to breach it, they will be on us. If they don't spot us before then. A blue glowing shape drifts overhead, the trees keeping us safe for now. But I have no illusions. They don't need ordinary vision to find us.

I have to keep my magic contained. Which means we have only our feet and our wits to carry us away from here.