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

the wire.”

They climbed the shallow bank.

Cinder stood on the far side beneath drooping cedar branches, snow gathered on his muzzle and the old scar pale along his flank. For several seconds, wolf and people looked at one another across the frozen creek.

Then Cinder tried to turn away.

His injured leg folded beneath him, and he went down hard in the snow…
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