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Whilst slinking around the rise, doing her best to avoid being detected, Masquerade made a discovery. The faint smell of meat drew her toward the foot of a Douglas fir. She nosed through the usual detritus found on forest floors—dead leaves, mostly, fragrant with autumn damp—and then clawed at the soil underneath until she revealed an array of small corpses.

Excited by her find, she dragged the topmost carcass out of the shallow. The rabbit was long dead and quite stiff, so she plucked it up by its ears and began to carry it awkwardly in the direction of the rendezvous site. Unaware that she’d just undearthed an established stockpile, Masquerade intended to show Avicus what she’d found.

She slowed her step as she approached the clearing’s fringe. Even though she wanted to share her findings with the pack’s Wealda, Masquerade was never keen to be seen until she chose to reveal herself. She let the rabbit drop gently from her mouth and crept forward through the brush, pausing when she spotted the newcomer perched on a stone shelf.