What? Before Inez could ask the man what he meant by those words, Scarlet grabbed her arm and then led her out of the clearing. The sounds of the guards screaming and yelling echoed behind them. Inez turned around and looked behind her; however, the prisoner's figure flickered, and the man disappeared like smoke, dissolving into nothing.
"It had to be a trick." Scarlet hissed as she looked behind them. "Whatever that thing was… it was trying to slow us down."
Inez knew that there was a very good chance that what Scarlet was saying to her was the truth, and yet those rhymes seared into her skull, like a burning hot poker pressed right within it. Every word was hammering like she had heard a prophecy.
