Chapter 162

KAT POV

I sat up in the tree, my down coat tucked around me.  It had taken me four days to make it this far north.  I didn’t want to use any sort of traceable transportation, so I shifted and ran at night, carrying a backpack of supplies and finding caves to curl up in during the day.  Despite the massive snowstorm, I had finally made it to Cornelius’s old compound.

I was in a lodgepole pine, forty feet in the air.  It was high enough that I had a huge vantage point, but low enough that the branches weren’t too sparce.  The branches provided some coverage so that I wasn’t easily seen, but I could still see everything. 

Below me I watched the movement in the compound.  I had heard rumors that someone was running Cornelius’s old business, but I hadn’t believed it until now.  It looked like someone had moved in and taken over, expanding.  I needed to figure out if they were any threat