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to be in Blackmoor
ou don't breathe in Dravon territory. You certainly don't bleed in it - be
Dra
of man that entire packs m
er-tipped blades didn't care about p
I r
ght me with his blade two miles back - shallow cut, not deep enough to slow me, deep enough to bleed everywhere. The trees blurr
the footste
like
gor swear.
ossed t
from the
e said. "Dravon wol
otsteps
ressed my hand to my side. Breathed. Counted
k
k
full of wolves who answered to a man whose name alone made pack Al
d off t
o the largest wolf I ha
eyes, completely, terrifyingly still. It didn't snarl. Didn't snap. Just stood there and looked at memy hand before I
looked at
back
fying feeling i
ame out steady. Years of practi
shi
earrangement of bone and muscle, the sound like something the body was neve
a man stood where
dn't change, with high-blooded wolves. Built like someone who'd been fighting since before it was a choice. He
reats. Like he was already three steps
ng on my terri
d of quiet that meant he'
aid. "I'll bleed
d him. His hand clo
ho grabbed usually grabbed to hurt. This was just
his hand.
go,"
losing
my bus
y border." His silver eyes moved to
ed as
dd more by
gone by
running for four days. You have no pack, no allies, and a bounty on your head that I hea
w tig
humiliate me, just stating facts, like he was reading a map o
id, "is also
t me for a
strils
gined it. Like a man who'd just touched something hot and immediately decided not to rea
ist tightened. Just s
I said again.
s your
of y
Is your
estion t
ushed authority. I'd felt it before. I'd always hated it. The way it pressed against your
ned my spin
you don't get to us
ing that looked - just for a second
aid. Like I
who yo
ow what I'm
telling you clearly - let go of m
knife still in my fr
t
ck. Kept my
our enemy,
aid. "And I stopped trusting wha
o walk int
His voice followed me. Still quie
ped wa
t turn
he said. "One nigh
dark ahead of m
most dangerous Alp
Short and
ted. "Nobody offers anyt
d
ned a
ace and I thought - this man is hiding something enormous behind
ed. And fourteen men would
ight,"
nod
d him int
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