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Rue watched the alabaster lady move through the brambles, wondering why she seemed so familiar. Surely Rue would remember if she had met this woman before? A wolf in a shawl was a sight not easily forgotten. 

Then again, you wouldn't have thought she could have forgotten the events in the wake of the earthquakes a year ago, either. There was an entire piece of Rue's life that was just... missing. What if this uncannily familiar woman had answers? 

"'Lo," Rue called out from her nest, attracting the woman's attention with a wag of her tail. She lay curled at the base of a snow-laden blackberry bush.