The next morning, blessedly, Elva woke up feeling infinitely better. She bounced around the room

without a care in the world.

When I told her about her prospective wolf ride, she buzzed with excitement. She wiggled her arms back

and forth and jumped up and down on her feet.

She pouted when I made her sit down.

“You had a serious fever only twenty–four hours ago,” I said.

I

“That’s a hundred years ago,” she countered. She kicked her legs under the chair. “I want to ride a wolf.”

“You will. But we have to wait until you are well.” I wasn’t going to take any chances this time, not after

what happened. She had gotten sick because of my carelessness. Never again.

“But, Mommy…”

“Elva. The wolf will still be there tomorrow.”

“What if it isn’t?”

“It will be.”

from sickness was only half of my worry. Since Lena’s threat the night before,

any location where she would

the hunt. Our prey was a wild

had planned for me undoubtedly would

even worse.

Elva anywhere around

in the care of the nanny, under the protection of Mark, I set out to

the courtyard, each of the girls were given a weapon of their

into the

participate, though would spread their attention among all the girls,

entirely on

greeting my wolf companion Silver, I chose a

the other girls, so I didn’t have

the hunt was what I would focus

us,”

flopping. For a full–sized wolf, she

distracted, this gives us advantage of finding the boar

I quickly followed her lead. As a wolf, she

heightened sense of smell,

boar, if not its

sniff at the ground, pressing her nose

and

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