Maria didn’t have an answer. Not yet. But she knew one thing with absolute clarity: The elephants weren’t the problem. They were responding to one. And whatever it was… it was directly beneath that barricaded ground.
Maria stepped cautiously past the keeper gate, hand resting on the railing as she eased her way inside. “It’s okay, girl,” she murmured. “I’m not here to bother you.” For a brief moment, it seemed Lila would allow her closer. The matriarch’s ears twitched, her massive frame still as stone.