Chapter 0082

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.”

was only half of my worry. Since Lena’s

bring her into any location where she would be

day of the hunt. Our prey was a wild boar. They were dangerous when cornered, with

tusks and instinct to charge. Whatever Lena had planned for me undoubtedly would make that

even worse.

want Elva anywhere around

under the protection of Mark, I set out to face my

in the courtyard, each of the girls were given a weapon of their choice, then sent with

into the forest hunting

spread their attention

on the

I chose a bow as

so I didn’t have any opportunity

hunt was the event, so the

us,” I

one ear flopping. For a full–sized wolf, she was

rest of them are distracted, this gives us advantage of finding the

chuffed, then turned toward the forest. I quickly followed her lead. As a wolf, she could

charge. With her heightened sense of smell, she likely already knew the general location

not its exact

to sniff at the ground, pressing her nose into the underbrush.

grumble and continue

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