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Elena took it gently and flipped the cover, careful not to tear the battered pages. Inside was a drawing: jagged mountains, a row of stick-figure people—woman, child, three others with wolfish heads and improbable bodies, trailing a sled through deep blue snow beneath a black, glittering sky. At the bottom, in shaky crayon, was scrawled: “Hope is a wolf.” Elena smiled, her vision blurring a little. She looked up at the girl and, unsure what else to do, nodded. “Hope is a wolf?” she repeated, softly.

I again made my way inside the library and sat behind my desk waiting for this important secret. Thomas waved his hands and an old leather bound book fell on my desk. It opened on its own and I wasted no time reading the faded black lettering inside. The first page told of a way to neutralize a winter faerie’s magic. I looked up surprised at Thomas who was grinning from ear to ear. He made the book disappear again and with his blue eyes twinkling said,” Now you know what to do my king.”