h her. That was

until her heels touched nothing. She turned her head. Behind her the ground simply ended. A gorge, black and nar

s something to do. Seven, and she had no weapon, n

ed back from his face and a man's jaw pushed through, grey-whiskered and scar

ena said. Her voice shook so badl

something mu

She cried out, and the smell of her own blood made the whole circle shudder. Somewher

's voice, or perhaps a wolf's, speaking from the

hat?" Elena

d his head. "Wha

he wind had stopped. The pines stood stiff as spears, and every wolf in the circle had gone absolutely still. Ev

upposed to be here. He's never on this s

d cut

r that came down through the trees and shook the snow from the branches, a note so deep tha

belly and pressed his muzzle into the snow. The leader stood his g

lack came o

behind it, and it struck the leader at full speed. Elena heard bone break. The big grey wo

hing caught him. One made it thirty. Elena shut her eyes, because she

ere was

with his flanks heaving. He was black as a hollow in the night, and larger than any animal had a right

ne step t

, who had been cut and thrown and hunted

thought. N

in the gold of his eyes that she would spend a long time trying to u

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