Black Claw: Bound by Fate
David mutters one night, staring into the fire.
Lizzy snorts, lifting his feet into her lap. “Endings are for stories. This is just breakfast and stubbing your toe and watching birds shit on the car.” She kneads his ankles with strong, sunburned hands. “You keep thinking you’ll find the last page, but there isn’t one.”
Darrel, from under the pile, says, “Especially with you writing in the margins.”
When their daughter is born, the wolves of the valley bring offerings: bones, trinkets, poems, a basket of paw-picked huckleberries. Lizzy names her Fen, and from the first night, she howls louder than any of them combined.
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