Crescent Camp Outskirts
Shani didn't remember fainting, but she surmised that she did when she woke to complete unfamiliarity…again.
It took her a moment for sensation to return, her senses getting their bearings. There was the sound of trickling water and distant voices; the feel of rhythmic hands on her face and neck, and a strong body holding her in the current of the water.
Questions drew her quickly into consciousness. And several realizations: she was naked, halfway submerged in water, and being held by an equally naked female.
Shani blinked awake and found her vision filled with a beautiful face warped with beautiful dislike. She thrashed, heel slipping on a film of algae on the rock beneath them. “Oh f—"
She was the Lovell she-wolf who helped her, and she saved her again no
