Emberwood It is a truth universally acknowledged

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There were dead trees as far as the eye could see. Sofi had followed a strong odour from a spent carcass from about a mile away. She had scrambled to what turned out to be little more than skin and bones of a small deer. Ravens had picked nearly all of it clean long before she had gotten to it. Nevertheless, Sofi pulled at the dried remains and took what little nutrition she could gather from it.

Footsteps sounded from a distance and Sofi heard a large animal approach. Though upwind from it, she feared it may be a wolf. Her ears turned forward and her eyes widened towards the sound. Curious, as usual, she decided to seek out the animal. 

No matter how hard she tried to stay quiet, the frozen earth beneath her feet made noise as she moved. A lump formed in her throat and she peered from behind a dead aspen tree at the noisemaker. It was a wolf, as she suspected. She still wasn't sure what to do about such a large population of these creatures. Were they friend, or foe? He was at least three times her size. 

Loneliness pushed her to speak. "Hello..?"