The Wolf Sat Beside the Lake for Three Days, and No One Understood Why

Keene was in the emergency department with moderate hypothermia, dehydration, frostbite in two toes, and a broken ankle. Doctors warmed her slowly. A nurse cut away the remaining wet fabric from her pant legs. Someone placed her mother’s old wool socks, found dry inside Samuel’s field pack, into a labeled bag with the rest of her belongings.

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