Our den was beneath a broad pine whose heavy branches swept low over the ground. Hot xxx 18 They were down slope and still some distance from me, and the deer was caught finally. I’d come to expect something, but I didn’t know what, only … The wolves had come out of the forest and turned the deer away and now I followed their trail easily, seeing the events as if they were happening right in front of me. It had been three days since I’d last been home and slept with my brothers. I’d crossed the stream twice and even ran along it for a good distance before climbing a steep ravine and into the hills to circle around, through the meadow where the pack had moved in late summer, they hadn’t made permanent dens such as mine, but used it temporarily as




















