A week passed without anyone hearing from Abby in any way. Jarett was in a foul, silent mood that quieted even the most strict teachers into not asking him anything. Many of Abby's friends were concerned, confused, and anxious. The other fellow pack members were somber, wondering how to find Abby, because even they didn't know where she went.<br/><br/>Jarett went searching for her one day and didn't come back until the evening, although he didn't come back with Abby.<br/>He came back more dead than alive, clothes and body slashed like he had gotten in a fist fight with a bear and barely made it out alive.<br/>Some pack members helped him to the infirmary, concerned now for what Jarett might have met in the woods, but unconsciously, they all thought the same thing.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">Abby.</span>