Loki's Wolves by K. L. Armstrong; M. A. Marr

Author:K. L. Armstrong; M. A. Marr
Language: eng
Format: MOBI
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780316231107
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“Not for long. He’ll choke.” Then she spun to face Matt. “Blast it.”

“Blast it,” he repeated.

“Break the stone with your energy thing, or Fen’s going to die.” She hated the thought of breaking the troll’s hand, even though it had chased them and probably would’ve killed them, but she hated the thought of Fen dying even more.

Matt frowned, but he obviously couldn’t see any other solution, either. The circle of stone that was the troll’s hand had to be cracked to remove Fen. Their only other choice was to wait till nightfall, when it would wake back up—and then probably finish choking Fen anyhow.

The energy blast cracked the stone around Fen’s throat, and he dropped to the ground with an awful thump. He didn’t move.

Laurie pulled the motionless wolf into her lap. “Fen! Fen, wake up!”

As she did so, she petted his face. What do you do when your cousin who is a wolf gets choked by a troll who is part of a mountain? These weren’t the sorts of things ever covered in health class.

“I’ll carry him out of here and…” Matt’s words faded as Fen shifted from wolf to boy.

Blearily, Fen blinked up at Laurie. “Did we win or die?”

She patted the top of his head like he was still a wolf. “Won.”

“Oh, good,” Fen murmured. Then he rolled over and went to sleep.

After Matt carried Fen into the woods to sleep, Laurie and Matt took turns napping. They were pretty sure that Fen was okay. He’d woken up a few times, asked a question, and then gone back to sleep. She wished that they had their tent and sleeping bags with them, but they’d stowed them near the Mount Rushmore parking lot because they were pretty sure that walking into the monument area with camping equipment would attract attention they didn’t want. So now they had only the cold ground to sleep on, and their backpacks to use for any kind of pillows.

In one of his brief awake periods, Fen told her that going back and forth between wolf and human took a lot of food, and he was just exhausted—and also healing from injuries. She was leaning against a tree then, and Fen scooted over and laid his head in her lap. It was warmer with him cuddled against her, but it meant she couldn’t move.

When Matt woke, he offered her his sweatshirt, so she slipped it on and, with Matt’s help, moved so she wasn’t Fen’s pillow. Then she stretched out on the ground next to her cousin for a short nap.

By afternoon, during one of Matt’s shifts, Fen woke, and they’d woken her up, too. Her cousin seemed fine—tired, but okay.

They filled him in, and then they went to buy something to eat and figure out how to get to Deadwood. They were finishing their breakfast-lunch when Fen inclined his head toward a group of kids about their age, who were starting to board two buses with big DEADWOOD TOURS signs painted on the sides.

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