k her in like
lunged from the left, and her body had swerved right before her mind could argue, and now the road was gone behind h
. Heavy, wet
lines of fire across her cheeks. The bundle was crushed under one arm, and some distant, stubborn part of her w
and heard the cloth tear. Another wolf came from the left, and another behind, and she understo
gasped, to no
a patch of ice
at made white light burst behind her eyes. The bundle flew from her arm. It hit a rock and split along its seam, and a pale g
lves s
on her side, her lungs burning, and watched the huge shapes hover at t
ook it. The bitter smell thi
lena's chest turned ove
, and every smell in the forest rushed in at once, bright and enormous: pine sap and wolf musk and blood, her ow
d his head. A low sound came
ent," h
ut of that vast mouth. Elena's mind refused it, and for one mome
is gone. Smell her.
voice from the dark, awed a
ought, stupidly, and pushed
began to
hat she is," he s
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