Chapter 58 Here, There Be Vampires

• I awoke, cramped, in what turned out to be the trunk of a car. Even before my captors opened it up, I could smell pine, grass, and fresh forest air. The only woods that I knew of near the city were a few hours to the north—in vampire territory.
• My body stiffened as my captors opened the trunk. One of them pulled me out of the car by my hair and dragged me down a rocky path. Every time I tried to stop, the captor who had a hold of me would prod me in the back with a gun and yank my hair until I started moving again.
• We took several twists and turns. Though I tried to keep track of them in my mind, I knew that I would never be able to retrace them. All I could tell was that the deeper we went into the forest, the less life I could smell…and the more death that I smelled in its place.