Chapter 11 Jake: The Vulture
[Rachel, you go look around town by the mall and up to the Gardens. Ax, you go search the woods, check the scoop and Tobias' normal hunting grounds.]
[Okay,] Rachel asked. [What are you going to do?]
[I'm going to go check on Cassie, see why she won't return my calls. And why her mom yelled at me over the phone, then hung up before I could say a word.]
We were all in our birds of prey morphs. Circling the mall parking lot. Trying to stay close enough to hear each other and far enough to not look like a raptor display.
[So, anyway, lets go, lets go find Tobias.] With that we all took off in different directions. Off, to go find Tobias, hopefully it's not too late. Tobias, the greatest casualty in this war. My fault, my fault his life was ruined. And I'm not letting him get hurt because of me again. With that I flew off towards Cassie's house.
It took me only a few minutes to get to Cassie's house. I landed in a tree next to the barn. Aka the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. I was looking for Cassie when I suddenly found her, not in the barn but in the woods about fifty yards to the left. She was wearing a horse blanket, covering up her body, which is strange, because we all, even Ax, can morph clothing. I don't know, maybe she had clothing on under the blanket. But the weird thing was that she was walking away from the barn, deeper into the woods. She threw off the blanket, revealing her morphing suit, which was not her usual leotard, she was wearing . From this she started to morph, it wasn't the osprey, it took me awhile to figure out that it was a vulture of some kind. Strange, I didn't know she had that morph.
She started to fly off towards the mountains. I started to follow. I was about to call to her in thought speech when I decided that whatever she was doing behind our backs, we needed to know.
