"What?" I said, "Unable to believe a word of what he said."
"That's why we had to sneak you out." He told me. "If we didn't, then you would probably never have had the chance to leave."
My heart was beating so rapidly as I touched my chest and looked around, trying to think.
Looking for my family had been a sort of dream.
A dream that I had only prayed about, but never really assumed I was going to see come to pass.
I looked up at the sky and watched the full moon.
Somewhere, I knew a wolf was howling, but we had gone so far away from the pack that I couldn't hear any noise.
I turned to look back at Otto.
"And Hildegard?" I asked him
He turned and looked away. "She chose her fate, Jasmine. The same way I have."
What if she died?
Wasn't my leaving cowardice?
Letting someone take the fall for something I had done.
"Don't think of going back." He told me. "There is nothing for you back there. If you do, Hildegard's sacrifice would be in vain, and I would be killed."
