Chapter 5

It Must Have Been The Vultures

Very short but dramatic, and you wont understand it for a very very long time (like the 5th book).

The next morning Baillie awoke at dawn, having hardly gotten any sleep the other night. She couldn't ignore the strong urge she felt in her gut to go and see if the body was still there. She solemnly made the trip over to the road. She, to her surprise, found that the hump of her brother's body was no longer there.

From what she could see, there were blood trails on the ground on the other side of the street, but it seemed like whatever took it away dragged him, not him getting up and walking. "It must have been vultures or something." Baillie tried to convince herself, but she couldn't get the thought that it wasn't actually vultures out of the back of her mind. Little did she know that she was correct about that, it wasn't flesh-eating, scavenging vultures, but something much worse.