CHAPTER 58

  Elizabeth's Point Of View

  He stops to an abrupt halt, I bump into his back and look around him to see what made him stop. Screams die at my tongue.

  Bloody, mangled bodies are entrapped in the web of vines, dead eyes staring into nothing.

  Something like a bullet goes past my arm, tearing the skin, I hiss, snapping out of my momentary trance. The bloody vines are slashing at us like throwing knives.

  Sebastian hisses a curse, taking a sharp turn, the vines coming at us in a wild array, jabbing and puncturing. We try to ward them off- me with the dagger and Sebastian with his free hand but that's highly annoying while running. I'm pretty sure we're going to die from blood loss.?

  "I see a clearing," Sebastian says, a silver of hope enters my heart.?

  I see it too, the faint moon light illuminates the patches of grass, the moonforsaken trees a respectable distance from each other.

  We cross the forestry and into the clearing—