I looked over the mission debrief one last time before Yara and I had to leave the safe house. I shredded the paper and lit the rest of it on fire. We walked form our safe house to the forest. Once were a good 2 km in we shifted. I let my arms turn to wings and gained my talons. Yara sharnk to the size of coonhound. It's ironic someone so tall shifts into a tiny arabian wolf and an even tinier dragonet.

Looking at me, she shakes her head in disapproval and starts running towards the lab. Our goal is liberation. Krish should had laid the groundwork, Mor should know how the well trained the guards are and their weakness, and now Yara just has to place the goods is the right place. And me, I get to let my bloodlust runfree and look good while I do it.

We half shifted out to make camp, we are close to the Torquemada lab. But not too close that they think we are spies. Nope, we are just two dumb mute shifters that camped too close to the lab.

“How dumb are their hunters?! We have been camping for a week within 1.5 km of their lab! Do we need to go knock on their front door!?” “Ari. Shut up. We will move closer tomorrow.” “Such wise words. No shit, we are getting closer tomorrow.” “Shut up.”

All I can do is wait for the dumb hunters to get their shit together and find us already. Maybe I should practice my knife throwing. But if they are not dumb the markings might just reveal us. We just sit in silence, until we finally hear the hunters approaching us. I just smirk at Yara and she nods in approval. When they are about to grab us, fake disoriented waking up when one of the hunters steps on a stick. Gott, they are stupid and they will definitely believe that we are mute. As I fake trying hard to escape with Yara, I noticed an annoyed Mor.

Mor “catches” Yara and collars her with a dud and also collars me as I try to save her. The other hunters were honestly useless. Mor just sends me a look of ,,yes, they are dumb. But don’t push it.” Mor also slides into our collars a note.

Honestly I just wanted to kill them there. But the lab has great security the shifters trapped would be killed before we could save them. Let’s just say the brains lie within the architect of the lab then the actual garuds.

Before we get lock inside the building for the next 2 months, Mor dropped the count down signal. Thus, the hunt begins.

Judging from the outside you would think the building would be darker and dinger. But it is blindingly white. While walking to my cell I caught the faintest smell of my childhood mountains. While trying to pinpoint the source, I see a smallish girl with a busted lip and tear stains, but the eyes of a hunter.

I get to my annoyingly white room. There are 3 cameras that I can see. One in the far corner, the left corner and one right outside the glass. Going to the bathroom I see two more. No good blind spots. Good thing I am fine with appearing weak. I get under the covers and read the message. ,,Don’t know their sign language.” What does their sign language mean?