The Insider System

Chapter 274: That Way Maybe

After looking around for a while Lake eventually found a single footprint around 500 feet away from where the trail ended. If it hadn't been for Detector he wasn't sure if he would have ever found it but that wasn't really what he was worried about. "Why do you think they changed up the way they were moving?"

Looking at the Temple Head while he waited for her to answer, Lake could tell she was really thinking. "It's most likely just to make it harder for anyone who is able to track them but it could have also been to avoid being seen. If there just happened to be a person here as they were running, maybe they jumped over the area so they wouldn't be seen."

"So you don't think it could be a fight or anything?" Lake had kind of been hoping that maybe Tiffany had been able to get away on her own and they had fought up in the air or something. He hadn't been able to find any of her tracks though so he had wanted to know what the Temple Head thought.

"There would be more damage to the area if there was a fight." Lake knew that as well but he said. "Not if the person was trying to avoid hurting who they were carrying."

"Her name is Tiffany, but you're right there is a chance the fight could have been devoid of any big attacks. I wouldn't really call that a fight though more of a chase." Hearing that the temple Head finally said Tiffany's name he was happy he could finally use it without worrying. "Well do you know if Tiffany can fly or anything like that that wouldn't leave tracks?"

"Not that I know of but she is pretty fast so her tracks might be far apart." Anyone with high agility could jump long distances which made the way he was tracking them less useful. "We'll continue after the person who grabbed her just to be safe." Lake didn't want to waste anymore time and just started to follow the tracks again, only stopping whenever there was a gap since he had to look around to find where the tracks continued.

"I think you were right about it just being a way to throw us off. I can feel intention from where they're jumping to make it harder for us to find the next set of footprints." It was always somewhere that he would have to pass through a forest or something to find the next one so it was obvious that they were trying to trick whoever was after them.

"We can try it but don't go top speed right away. Increase it slowly." Lake knew there was probably no reason for him to say this since she had probably carried loads of people before but sometimes it was good to say what felt obvious. "Alright get ready." Feeling her start to move, Lake told her to just go straight and held on.

Once they had passed the speed at which he had carried Helain Lake had to get his face really close to the Temple Head's ear so that she would be able to hear him but when he heard her tell him to back off of her ear he guessed she was able to hear him even with this much noise. After a while they were going much faster than what they had been doing earlier and he really had to grip her to make sure he didn't go flying off of her back.

"Stop." Calling a stop, Lake climbed off and started to look around for the next set of tracks. Eventually finding them he gave the Temple Head a look and was about to ask to get back onto her back but she just let him with no need for any words. "I'm going to speed up faster this time, hold on tight from the beginning."

Lake clamped his hands down and could feel most of his body come up off of the Temple Head's back being dragged like a cape behind her for a few seconds before he was able to get his legs back by doing what was essentially a crunch. Once he was nice and secure he started to giggle a little and said. "Turn slightly to the left."

After a while they got into a rhythm and they were able to cover a massive amount of land that was similar to what he could have done on his own if he wasn't trying to hide how fast he was. "Stop here the trail ends again." It seemed whoever they were chasing had a large amount of patience to still be trying to slow down anyone who had been able to stay on the trail this time.

As he was looking for where the tracks would continue he went ahead and asked. "Where do you think we're heading at the moment if you had to guess." He had asked around twenty times at this point but he really liked to know where he was going. "My guess would be the fire Domain. We're getting close to it but that doesn't mean that's where they are. They could have just passed through."

Lake took in everything she said before he said. "The track will probably be over there, let's go look." There was a river and the person they were chasing had jumped over almost every river they had seen so far, sometimes even landing in it before jumping again. If it wasn't for Detector he would have never had any hopes of seeing this but he had no problem using his cheat-like skill.

"There it is, but it looks like they kept jumping for a while." They had never jumped more than three times in a row so Lake wasn't worried about losing them here. Eventually finding another trail of footprints Lake was about to tell the Temple Head to let him back on but he saw this set stopped after ten or so paces. "It looks like they might have changed it up again."

Lake had no idea why but he thought maybe whoever they were after had been able to tell they were tracking them and had decided to throw them off like this but all he needed to do was think of a way to use Detector to get past this new trick and they would be back on their heels.

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