~ ROWAN
Nyssa didn't ask more questions, and it was a good thing too because I had no idea how I'd explain to her that I just felt the need to be out there.
I woke in the dead of night, the wind howling in the distance, the curtains drawn, and an inexplicable need to be out there in the woods with my paws on the ground.
I was out of bed before I even knew what I was doing and found myself running through the trees.
"Do you think I imagined it?" she asked as she crawled into bed, the covers pulled up to her chin.
"No," I answered smoothly, but I did not offer up any further explanations… I couldn't.
Nyssa was many things, but a liar was not one of them. If she said she saw something, the n she truly believed it, and with everything that happened yesterday—the deer in the road and all—it was plausible that she saw something.
"Do you think it was a—"
"I don't know what it was," I cut her off. "I also don't think we need to spend time worrying about it."
