Straight down the middle of the path behind me, bigger than the first two. Don’t stop, don’t stop, don’t stop, my wolf was shouting so loud it felt like she was ripping through my skull. I don’t care if there are three, I don’t care if there are thirty, we do not stop, Lyra, we do not give up, we do not let them take us, do you hear me, we fight until the last breath if we have to but we do not let them win tonight! “But they’re so close!” I cried back in my head even as I leapt over a fallen tree, my paws hitting the ground so hard on the other side my legs nearly buckled. “We can’t fight three of them, we can’t outrun three of them forever, what if this is it, what if this is the way we die?” Then we die running, my wolf snapped, furious and wild now, her voice shaking the way the earth was shaking under my paws. We die on our feet, Lyra, not in chains, not in their teeth, not screaming on the ground like prey, so run faster, faster, faster, until the moon itself can’t k
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