Swiftcurrent Creek when emma falls in love

It was Akavir's scent that stopped her.

Otherwise, Mae might have walked right by the woman standing in the water. She wasn't sure what was going on, and she didn't care. The pale wolf was clearly no relative of Mae's — and so for the same reason she would have gone ignored under any other circumstance, the Mayfair girl now paused to regard her with eyes ablaze.

She watched the woman for a moment, then noticed the leaf laid out on a flat stone. Mae stepped toward it, looking at the pale wolf and then back at what was clearly her leaf. Then she slowly tore it in half, eyes lifting to watch for a reaction.