Of Sorcery and Snow by Shelby Bach

Author:Shelby Bach
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ur wolf problem came back just as we began to climb the mountains. Chase pointed out a couple white ones sniffing around the frozen fields below, west of our trail. From this far away, it was impossible to tell if they were the regular kind or the kind that called the Snow Queen “Her Majesty,” but since we hadn’t seen a ton of wildlife, I was guessing they were the second.

“What do we smell like right now?” Forrel asked Chase. Lena and Miriam both gave the dwarf weird looks.

Not Hadriane though. And not me.

Chase’s glamours were strong enough to include a phony scent, perfect for fooling wolves, but I hadn’t expected the dwarves to know.

“A family of polar bears.” Chase didn’t meet anyone’s eyes.

I wondered how long he’d been keeping the glamour up. Actually, I worried about how much magic he had left. Chase had already exhausted himself once on this quest.

“Not sulfur?” Miriam checked the smelly dragon scale in her hand.

“If we smelled like Draconus melodius, the wolves would report that some of Solange’s pets had escaped,” said Forrel.

Someone was going to have to tell the dwarves that being half Fey was Chase’s secret. Lena didn’t need to become any more suspicious. Behind Miriam and Lena’s backs, I met Hadriane’s eyes, pantomimed wings, and shook my head, eyes wide. She got the picture. I guess if anyone would understand Chase trying to pass for human, it would be a half-human daughter of a dwarf king.

“Better to—” continued Forrel, but Hadriane interrupted, “Enough. One thing is certain: they’ll catch us if we stay in one place.”

Then she charged up the slope before anyone could argue with her.

I looked back once. Someone else had joined his two white packmates—a gray wolf with white paws, like socks. Mark sniffed around the other two and then skittered away to pounce on an especially big mound of snow.

Hopefully Chase wouldn’t spot him. Otherwise he’d tell me that this is what happens when I insisted on not killing bad guys.

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