SEARCH PARTY II

"Come in at your own risk."

Freya scoffed, unable to help herself, when she heard what the new girl said as she stepped into the sitting room.

Come in at your own risk? If only the girl knew what she was, she would be holding her tongue. But that was by the way. They were here for something important.

"You never told us your name, now that I think of it.." She muttered, as she and the others stepped into the large empty sitting room.

"My name is Akila. Follow me, the rest are this way." The girl gestured to a passageway which looked wide enough like the one at the pack house.

They followed her through the snake-like passageway till they burst out in a smaller compound, with a raffia shade at the far end.