Chapter Nine
Cold water trickled down her neck. Her hair felt damp, too. Col was close, she could feel his presence. She didn’t have to open her eyes to confirm it. He was there.
The world had stopped swinging from side to side. She was on the ground again, although her stomach still felt as though it were swaying back and forth and up and down. Everything rumbled, and she rolled quickly, heaving the contents of her stomach all over the white snow.
Naomi opened her eyes and it took several moments for her vision to clear. White ground beneath her. Check. Trees in the distance. Check. Movement above her made her gulp for a breath. She could smell blood and char, and something else.
A rumble sounded next to her and an enormous nose nudged her hip.
She nearly screamed in fright before sh
