ve when Daniel

ymond kept his tools. Daniel was nineteen and already a Gamma, and he had come back from the Council meeting

thumbnail, with a pin on the back. I had turned it ov

said. "So the mountain k

of the one hanging in the equipment bay right now, and Marcus had

ed her patient down the trail and she stit

made his silver hair look white, and his grey eyes had that

the hand,

The gauze wa

rk," Marcus said

on that mountain. She's saved

bunk. "Get dressed. There's a car waiting in the lot. The pack ha

and the sky had that hard clear look it gets before dawn, with the moon still up over the western

logs and stone that had been there since the 1930s. The lower floor was the common room and

olded. Raymond was at the long table with two of the older wolves, and four of the warriors were standing

. He did not of

went out to the eastern line and did not come back. Nine

kno

s came over the line in the dark. You told them you fought and that Daniel was killed in th

what h

ngs. This time it did, because I spoke for you. I said you were young and grieving and that my

emem

in this pack." Marcus set his hands on the arm

the table. It was thin, the kind the hospital used for intern

requested the incident reports from the sheriff, and she has asked the forest service to reopen the tracks

silent. The

enver tells her what she already suspects, she will bring it to the Council. The Council will ask questio

you want

goes, what she writes in that folder. If she makes a call to Denver, I want to know wh

he sends

at the fire

a different conve

id it back under her arm. Marcus stood up and walke

a mate. I can smell it on her from the hospital repo

. I heard Nina shift her

uman carrying a Ridgeback bond and a Ridgeback secret in the same body. So you will keep your di

rned

t," he

out the nine wolves who never came home, and about the fact that Marcus had spoken

tch her,

the r

't tou

ome and get some sleep. You st

lot with my breath steaming and the moon going down behind t

to him,"

what he want

, and your hand is shaking." She loo

the truck

ch her," I said.

got in the truck and sat with the engine running and the heater blowing cold air at m

would know whose side I was on. Two years

ocket. I pulled it out

mber. A singl

ht. I need to talk to you about the marks on