The Sly Fox

The room fell quiet with just Elora and Zack left inside.

The silence seemed to wind Zack tighter by the second. "I'm certain we've never met before," he said carefully. "So why are you looking for me?"

Elora didn't answer that directly. "I heard you haven't eaten in several days."

She hadn't needed to say that out loud.

The moment she did, something hollow and cramping seized Zack's stomach with