Chapter 755

Chapter 100 : Prepare for the Worst

My heart flooded with warmth and I took Soren’s hand. He squeezed my fingers and smirked. With a sharp tug, he pulled me along.

We caught up with Enzo and Payne by the front door.

“It shouldn’t be too difficult to find the herbs, right?” I asked.

Enzo shrugged. “I know some good places to look. But there’s been a lot of rain…”

“Lead the way.” Payne pointed toward the door.

Enzo led us out to the front yard. The ground was soggy and squishy under my feet, oversaturated with water.

Water still drizzled around us but it was more like a mist than a rain shower. Natural mist, not magical mist.

We walked toward the mountains where the Moon Goddess temple had been. I moved a little closer to Soren, remembering what happened the last time we were there.

“Oh, crap!”

Enzo’s curse pulled me from my thoughts.

“What’s wrong?” Soren asked.

“The road ahead is washed out. The only way around is to wade through that flooded lowland over there.”

He pointed to the flooded area.

“It looks like we’re getting wet,” I muttered.

We all stood at the edge of the flooded area. It was impossible to tell how deep the water was and, in the darkness, I couldn’t see the other side.

“I’ll go first and test the depth of the water,” Payne suggested.

Before Soren could say anything, Payne plunged into the water. It devoured him quickly, until he was just a head above water.

“It doesn’t get any deeper than this, and the other side isn’t too far off. We might have to swim a little, but there’s no current, so it should be easy,” Payne reported.

“Let’s go, then.”

Soren went in next, leading me by the hand. Enzo followed us.

When we got deeper, where I couldn’t touch the bottom anymore, Soren swung me onto his back. I wrapped my arms loosely around his neck as he waded through the deeper water.

If I thought finding the herbs would be easy, I was sorely mistaken…

On the other side of the flooded land, the ground sloped upward. We’d be going into the mountains, which meant no more flooding.

“Come on, there are good herbs this way,” Enzo said. He motioned to us to follow him.

a lot of the nearby plants weren’t doing so well. They’d been completely waterlogged and it

they wouldn’t be as potent for the

stopped dead and Payne nearly ran

asked,

his head and whispered softly

where he’d been

Goddess temple had stood. The mountain looked… half of the mountain was completely blown away.

there, it was completely

a few scraps of the

“Enzo?”

placed a hand on his shoulder. He squinted his

“Are you okay?”

saw his jaw tense and he

“That used to be very fertile farmland. The majority of Norwind

trembled and

thought I saw a glint of tears at

and flooded by the rains. All the equipment has

is awful. I’m sorry,

how could Norwind turn from one of the most

his teeth together, anger flashing in his

as bad as you think. Once the flooding recedes, you and your people can look over the land and the extent of the

Enzo smiled tightly.

Mila. I might be young but I’m not naïve. Norwind is

doesn’t mean

his age shouldn’t have to sigh like that. “We’ve got a lot of ground

led us further into

was still upset, so I went and

give up hope, you spoke up on behalf of your grandfather.

He scoffed.

what they need. It can’t feed

others start fighting for themselves and their needs. Enzo, you’ve opened the door. Don’t be surprised if the others start

be strong enough to protect everyone but that doesn’t mean I

is a

how to support the pack. That’s always been his job as the healer. He needs to know everyone, their allergies, their medical histories, all of it. It is

you well and I think that the pack will look to you… if he doesn’t make it.” I hated to bring up the unpleasant likelihood that regardless of what we did, it might

make it!” he declared in such a confident voice

“and we’ll do everything we can to save him, I

pointed ahead to

of

list. The plants weren’t completely waterlogged but they did look a little weathered. I wasn’t

here as I hoped. I guess the rain took a lot of them out.” Enzo sighed as he filled

will take what

herbs was also in trouble. It was stringy and slimy, probably from too much

on the rain damage, it would take a long time for the land in Norwind to be good for growing crops again. The mud and floods would make it difficult to

place for these

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