Blacktail Deer Plateau This life is more than just a read through.

She continued to study him, knowing it wasn't the full truth. Her brow crumpled with confusion. What was so bad that he couldn't tell her?

She shook her head, her gaze finding the treeline. If Kavik didn't have to be truthful about his demons, then why did she?

"I'm just worried about the coming winter," she murmured, the truth but not quite all of it. Her worries only reminded her of her last winter in Teekon, of the year she had truly lost everything.