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give my leg a chance to heal. Phillips could open the zoo gates and give me an hour’s head start, but if my leg was still infected, then any escape would be pointless as I wouldn’t get very far.
    The sunlight felt warm and soothing against my skin and as I drifted off to sleep I imagined that I was in a nice soft bed curled up under…
     
    … the blanket. It felt safe under the blanket.
    I could hear the sound of sobbing.
    “Bring me blood!” someone cried from down the corridor outside my room.
    There was the sound of keys rattling in a lock.
    “Have you brought me some blood?” the voice gasped.
    Even from my hiding place beneath my blanket, I could hear the desperation in the voice – it sounded as if they were going out of their mind with cravings. I pulled my blanket tighter over my head.
    Then there came a scuffling sound in the corridor outside. I peeked over the top of my covers and could see shadows darting back and forth under the gap beneath my door.
    “She’s gone,” I heard a voice say and I knew it was one of those doctors talking, their voices sounding muffled as it seeped from beneath their surgical mask.
    Climbing from under my blankets, I swung my legs over the side of my bed and stood. Immediately, I grabbed hold of the mattress as my head swooned with a dream-like weightlessness. Composing myself, I inched my way towards the little window in my door.
    I peered over the lip of the frame and watched as two of those doctors wheeled a stretcher from a room down the corridor and headed towards me. As they came nearer, I could see Kayla lying on her back, her head propped up against some pillows. Her lips were swollen and purple. But as they pushed her closer, I could see to my horror that her lips weren’t swollen and purple, they were covered in blood.
    They paused outside my door and I ducked down.
    “ Kayla, what have they done to you?” I whispered.
    Then they were moving again and I stood up and looked back through the window just in time to see Kayla suddenly reach up with one bony hand. It looked hot and clammy and her fingers were twisted like claws. She waved her hand in the air as if acknowledging me. But that was impossible, right? How did she know that I was there? It was as if she had heard me whisper her name. And then the stretcher was gone and so was Kayla, as the doctors carried her away down the corridor and out of sight.
    I crossed the room back towards my bed. Pulling the blankets back over my head, I closed my eyes again. I wanted to go to sleep and wished that I would never…
     
    “...wake-up!” the voice said in my ear.
    I peered through my half-closed eyes and stared into the face of Nik. The wolf was standing over me. The cell was in semi darkness, as the daylight outside began to fade.
“What do you want?” I groaned, my stomach aching and my skin feeling hot as my body started to crave the red stuff again.
“To say thank you,” he said softly.
“What for?”
“For not telling.”
I pulled myself up onto my elbows and winced. My bladder was full and I desperately needed to take a pee.
“What you talking about?” I mumbled.
“For not telling Phillips it was me who brought you the chair and book.”
    “Oh, that,” I said, as I got to my feet. I gingerly placed my right foot onto the floor and waited for the explosion of pain, but it didn’t come. It still hurt and throbbed, but not as bad as before. My back continued to throb where I had been operated on, but it was bearable.
    “Phillips was asking all sorts of awkward questions. He wanted to know which one of us it was,” Nik said.
    “What happened?” I asked, as I placed the flat of my hand against my bladder.
    “He said that if he ever found out who had been kind to the half-breed, he would rip their throat out,” Nik told me. ”I’m going to have to be careful until Phillips has got everything sorted out.”
    “Got what sorted out?” I asked him.
    “I don’t know.” he told me.
    “How did