Beneath The Howl
she said, tugging off her gloves, “I’m one of the town medics. Been training under Doc Harrow since I was seventeen. I’ll be helping you with patients if that’s alright.”
“I’d like that,” I said. “I could use the help.”
“Good. Because you’re going to get it whether you like it or not.”
I laughed, surprised by the sound of it.
Elise was warm, blunt, and easy to be around. She told me about the families hardest hit by the illness, about the way people had started whispering that it wasn’t natural, and about Kael—how he’d stepped in when no one else could, how he worked himself half to death trying to hold things together.
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