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"I thought you had a pack?" Sven said, and proceeded to offer her something from his hard-earned caches. Disa didn’t know why she had expected him to jump at the chance to leave his ancestral home and start a merry band of winterkin with a stranger.

Disa dropped into a sit, ears sitting askew on her small head.

"I do. They are not ideal." Though, unbeknownst to Disa, a change was happening in Verapaz. "You won't leave?" she asked, looking around Sven's vast and empty manor.