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ng with excitement. Everyon
there had never been a quest
ike. Some had whispered th
he might shift into s
inside her as midnight appr
sing to the surface. The wolf
taste it.
th
. The power had receded li
re, still human, still trapped
onfusion, then pity, then bar
shock. But Fiona had seen i
ecognition. As if he'd known
g for it, d
out it in the days that follo
d said. "Sometimes the wolf
yes had said: I know what you
l y
ulled her from the memory. T
, wide and clear and constant
is place, at least, never j
she was less than
orite spot-a flat rock that
branches trailed in the cu
into the rock decades ago,
ti
nd pulled out her supplie
low. She'd have to ask Ki
er dependence, her us
ted to paint, all
nvas in sure strokes, capturi
the breeze, the distant moun
gift, the one thing she could
politics. When she painted,
daughter, not the wolf
sky in shades of orange and pink
n the meditation of color and for
f she too found peace
'd been painting when the fi
er s
hovering over canvas. The fo
s hummed in the grass. Even
ea
upward, suddenly alert. Da
danger
napped b
ing. Three figures emerged f
es in human skin. But these
e rogues-she could tell by
es, by the lack of any pack s
whe
showing too many teeth. He w
rms. "Well, well. What do we
on
k house was too far. Even i
ack, the rogues blocking her
seless-she'd neve
oud that her voice didn't sha
e here an
ike breaking glass. "Is that
l like..." He inhaled deeply,
like nothi
out, flanking her. One was
with madness. The other was
ds were already sh
d, her voice full of contem
olfless. Oh,
she was. Someh
ree. There was nowhere left t
before they caught her. The
inst the invisible barri
seemed to scre
the word even as it left her
on
. "Oh, we will. Eventually. B
bounty on Moon River Pack
eral. "You're worth double.
ck
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