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92 Wood Pack

Author: Jenne Lopes
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Hilda

The sun had barely risen when we reached Wood Pack territory. Mark the scout leader and his team moved efficiently, having treated Evelyn with herbs and a painkiller strong enough to keep her stable through the night. By dawn, they'd fashioned a stretcher from branches and blankets, and we set off through the forest.

I walked beside Ava, who hadn't slept more than an hour. Her eyes were fixed on her mother's still form, carried between two burly wolves ahead of us.

"How much farther?" she asked, her voice raspy from exhaustion.

"Not far," Mark the scout leader answered from the front of our procession. "See those trees with the red markings? That's our outer boundary."

He pointed to a cluster of pines with deep slashes in their bark, red sap oozing down the trunks like blood.

"The pack house is just beyond the ridge," Tessa added. She'd stayed by Evelyn's side all night, monitoring her breathing and changing the dressings on her wound. "Our medical facilities are there."

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