Chapter 55: Lucky
Orchid
Like the calm before the storm, there was one moment of perfect peaceful alignment when my heart rate synchronised with the pulse of the plants. I took a deep breath and then I unleashed chaos.
Brambles shot forth from every hedge twisting and turning as they formed a barricade across the street. Dagger-like thorns burst from every branch of my new living barricade. Instead of deterring the wolf hunters, the thorns in their path seemed to serve as a challenge. The gauntlet had been thrown down. Hunters with axes and some with knives hacked through the brambles, others began climbing over them while some crawled beneath the thicket of thorns.
I was acutely aware of every single leaf, thorn, branch and stalk. Every time they slashed through one branch, I sensed
