The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog by W. Bruce Cameron

Author:W. Bruce Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical
ISBN: 9781466842977
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2015-08-03T21:00:00+00:00

Year Nineteen

“Are you sad, little girl?” Mal asked the pup, who was sniffing intently at the place where the mother-wolf had spent nearly all of her time in the cave. It seemed to Mal, too, that the odor of the adult wolf still hung in the air—or at least, Mal sensed something, as if in some way the mother-wolf were still there. He sighed. “I know that I am sad. I miss the way she would tap her tail in the dirt when I climbed down the crevice. I did not fully know it, but I had come to love her.”

Mal took a deep breath and reached for the puppy, gathering her into his arms. She wriggled and squirmed around so that she could lick his face, and his sadness lifted instantly. They play-wrestled until she tired. She lapped up some water and then lay down with a sigh. He put a hand on her head.

“I do not know if you will be upset when I am finished with your mother’s pelt and bring it back in,” Mal said after a time. “I am using the mixture made from tree bark to cure the skin now. It bakes in the sun. I hope you understand that I did not kill your mother. The lion did that, though your mother was like stone inside, and fought death as fiercely as she fought her killer.”

Mal thought of the vow he had made to protect the wolf cub. The lion was still out there somewhere, and thus Mal cowered in the den, venturing out only to meet his mother for food, his heart pounding the whole time.

The little girl-wolf depended on him.

What would happen when winter came?

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