Haunted Wood see no [more] evil

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Bears. Swift. Bazi. He registered each bit of information like bullet points. Wait a sec—Bazi? Why did he know that name? It took Peregrine a moment but suddenly he was flashing back to Fox's spar with the white she-wolf. Probably a lot of things had happened to Bazi since conquering Silver Creek's Alpha. Apparently, a litter of pups was one of them.

"Bears did that to you? When?" he queried, ears folding backward. He looked around, as if wary of a grizzly popping out of the surrounding darkness. But he did not see, hear or smell any sign of bears. "There are no bears here right now," he went on to assure the terrified youngster. He thought he'd had it bad with his dead eye but he'd just swallowed a healthy dose of perspective.

"How far away is your mom, do you know?" he wanted to know next. He had heard the child's cries all the way from the caldera, so what did that mean for Bazi's whereabouts? "I can take you to her... or call her. One way or another, we'll get you back to her."