Violet
I flinched, trying to get up, but Rowan held me stiffly in place, his glare dead set on the trees in the distance. I stared at him, baffled. The animals had gone ahead for a while, why would he still want us staying here?
Before I could speak up, the silhouettes within the trees fully formed as they emerged from the trees like shadows, at least a dozen of them fanning out to surround us in a loose semicircle.
They emerged from the trees in their wolf forms, moving with a predatory grace. They were not hiding the fact at all that they were searching for me. Coiled around the neck of the biggest wolf was a massive red serpent, with its scales gleaming in the light. Its forked tongue flicked the air, tasting and searching.
I went still.
Why did they have that exactly?
For a long moment, no one moved.
