Phoenix Maplewood b is for basil assaulted by bears

"you come with me. i teach you."

a gambit. a branch extended toward a lost boy. yikaas entertained no ideas that the child could replace the son he had been forced away from, the son who lived with his treacherous mother in moontide and surely was being raised by the seal hunters even now.

robbed twice, then!

robbed three times!

yikaas turned away as if to leave. a pair of steps sounded in the undergrowth, light, and then he turned back. "moonwolves took them."

the gold eyes. it was the eyes. to whom did they belong? and where had he seen them before?