Greatwater Lake the vagrant rover life

Finally, Adeline runs through the information quickly as King speaks again. The wisp of a wolf doesn’t say much other than whine and her ears fall back, scared for her. She does not want her to run away in terror but she always doesn’t want to overstep and make things worse. She glances to her companion, surprised to see him still, and struggles to shake her head and form a coherent answer. “I—I wasn—… no,” she finally manages to get out through the scramble in her head.

The ghostly wolf she helped take care of comes to mind and how it had taken some effort to get her to trust the two of them—this isn’t Grayday, Adeline (she looks back to check)—but she also knows this will take more. Her jaw tightens and she returns her attention, lowering her posture a little more so she seems less of a threat.

“Are you?” she asks, passing along the question King asked. “We can get something for you.”