Knotting the Hunter
I give it to her the way Dad taught me to give a report.
Size, gait, the cold coming off it, the joints bending where joints don't.
Silver through the throat, nothing. A blade to the kidney, nothing. No blood. No pain. The smell of opened ground.
I leave out the wolf.
I rebuild the whole fight with one fighter in it, me, swinging at a corpse that took everything I had, and if the story has holes in it the size of a nine-foot white wolf, well. It's my story.
Lillianna works her dough and listens with her back to me, which from her is full attention.
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