it. This thing costs m
uit open like a body bag, and the smell that hits her makes her
y has its own ecosy
e mouth has mesh,
ut the re
ame starts in t
arlon yanks the zipper up her spine so hard she stumbles, and now the
croo
s fi
ee half th
ks the head into
rea
nnel and look happy. The crowd e
planning
nearly trips over the giant paws twice before she even gets to
reaming voices, a wave of sound that vibrat
innesota cold that leaks in through every door. Some kid points
s. She waves anyway and almost c
y! So
her own foam finger, mouth wide open. Brooke is next t
s!" someo
s back, her voice mu
n, draped in a custom Heller jersey. Lacey Drumo
them laugh. Lacey leans over, and Jessie can just make out the
the paws. Not worth it. A guy nea
ilation. She can see the caption now: New
. The Golden Wo
cks cracking. Jessie presses up against the glass, fogging it
across the ice, the way they know where
he face-off before she can blink, and the puck is already down the ice, bodies slamming into the bo
ding too long, the fur trapping everyth
els like something inside her has rolled over a
a little dance by the glass for a cluster of kids, and one of them shouts, "You're th
suits are torture devices. Maybe I sh
cot! Get to the bench, do a bit d
ing hard, gulping water, and the smell of sweat and ice and something sharp like
s go Wolves! M
drops his
ttle slips, bounces on the rubber mat,
He turns his head, scanning
king up from his stick tape until Jonah doesn't answ
nd the roll drops to the fl
onah's voice is t
. His dark eyes are
aching for his drink when he freezes. His fingers curl into a fist on the ra
ng. The band is playing.
lse sees
motion, and then one of the giant paws catches on the boards and
nn
rom the bench, into the dark tunnel. The noi
d crooked so she's mostly blind. She adjusts it, the
or s
ere. All three. Jonah, water
gers. Martins, helmet off, tho
says an
omes out thin. "
steps
head." Low.
ins, his wo
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