Jade Fern Grove Stay Gold

“Help me: stranger.” Shoulders held rigid but she gave a skeptical hike of muzzle. Her eyes raked freely over the girl, as if trying to gauge her character by sight alone. She too was slight, but not in the same way that marked Tauris with hunger- in a natural way that many would denote as feminine. Delicate. Were all southern wolves spun with such elegance?

“You offer charity, but there is no give without take.” She’d learned well by now that everything in these freelands had a cost. Even this unearthly creature with warm air and words sweet as honey.