I finally lost the will to run, my body coming to a halt, every inch of it burning, screaming at me to stop.
My chest heaved, my shoulders rising as falling as I tried to get some air into my lungs, trying to stop the burning in my chest. My thoughts reeled as I tried to make sense of what was happening and what had happened.
I was beyond exhausted, and the worst part was that it didn’t feel like I was any closer to catching up with them than I had been when I had started this stupid goose chase.
There were no tracks in the snow—not even a single trail. There was no blood either, no signs that could indicate a scuffle of some sort. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It almost seemed like no one else had been through here before I did.
The part that confused me the most, was that I
