A Mystery of Wolves by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375849893
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

“Do we have to climb higher?” she asked Graysong.

“Another hour,” the wolf answered. “Then we will need to find somewhere to rest properly.”

The snow on the ground was very thick, and although Little Fur could make herself light enough to walk across the top of it, that was tiring, too. Whenever her concentration faltered, she would fall through the soft crust and have to dig herself out. It was three hours, not one, before they finally reached the summit.

Little Fur gasped. At the summit was a wide plateau encircled by snow-streaked black mountain peaks. A freezing wind blew into their faces, and caught helplessly in it, Crow was dashed against a stony outcrop. He fell to the snow and lay motionless. Little Fur gathered him into her arms again and wrapped the cloth around them.

“I need to get him to some shelter,” she gasped.

“There is a cave, if you can carry him,” Graysong said.

Little Fur nodded, hoping it was true. They headed for two peaks whose jagged tips leaned toward one another. The old wolf explained that the cave was in the first mountain, close to a narrow pass. Little Fur kept her eyes on it until the snow fell so thickly that she lost sight of everything but Graysong’s shape ahead of her.

Little Fur was plodding along in a waking dream by the time they reached the twin peaks. She could not see them, but the wolf nosed along the rocks at the base of the mountain, smelling of certainty. She followed him, her arms burning from Crow’s weight. The only parts of her that did not feel numb were where Crow was against her chest and Gem against her neck.

Graysong vanished into a crack in the side of the mountain. Little Fur followed him. Inside was a vast dry chamber full of sinister echoes, but Little Fur’s nose told her there was nothing dangerous. A collection of snow bats locked in their winter dream hung from the ceiling. Little Fur’s troll blood surged with delight at being enclosed by the earth. She set Crow and Gem down, wrapping the cloth about them. Then she dug into the bottom of her pouch for a tiny set of flint stones given to her by a dwarf.

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