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Easy picked up a smaller bundle of the flowers as well, nodding eagerly at Pema's instructions. Daddy had rarely allowed her and her siblings around the borders back at the Old Den, but they'd travelled all over, now. Daddy didn't mind them exploring as long as they had a big wolf with them.

She wondered if Momma was lost. Easy had heard Daddy say that she'd gone away on purpose, when the leader thought his children couldn't hear. If Daddy believed it, then Easy certainly did - but maybe she just couldn't find her way back? Daddy could always find his way back, but Daddy said that he had a magic nose. Momma didn't have a magic nose.

"We have to get lots of flowers," she decided. "Momma doesn't have a magic nose like Daddy and Aunt Spot."