Chapter 9
About the Loups and how they came about
Adam walked to one of the barred windows when a warm orange light crept through the little cottage. The woodcutter had made sure the door was securely bolted and the wolves had fled before he stacked logs in the stone hearth and prepared the fire. If what had happened outside worried him, he didn't show it. In fact, he seemed remarkably calm, and some of that calm had spread to Adam. He should have been scared, even traumatized. After all, he had been menaced by talking wolves, witnessed an attack by live ivy, and the charred head of a German airman had landed at his feet, half-gnawed by sharp teeth.
Instead, he was just confused and more than a little curious.
Adam's fingers and toes tingled. His nose began to run in the growing heat a
