Chapter 15

I scrambled for a handhold, anything, please anything! I kicked and tore and fought at the icy grip that held me. The other walked behind us and tilted her head one way then the other, like she was studying me. All I could see were her glowing eyes. I screamed again.

Fierce crashes below the ground mimicked the pump of my blood. Then tree roots burst from the earth, spraying me with dirt. They coiled up both look-alike's legs and waists. Branches from nearby trees bent to the ground and weaved together to form nearly solid walls separating them from me. Blazing blue eyes peered through small cracks between the branches. Another tree limb slithered over the wrist of the one who still held me tight and cuffed it to the ground, forcing her to let me go.

The ground rumbled. Now free, I scrambled away from the look-alikes. Sharp cracks sounded behind me. My heart thundered. But I heard a voice.

"Hold on to me."