Elma POV
They found Rusk before they found the missing pan. Zeb's patrol caught him at a burned watch house north of the pack. The brown wolf was gone, and Rusk was too hurt to travel. Zeb brought him into the infirmary with his wrists bound and two guards on either side.
Maren did not appreciate an interrogation in her ward. She treated the gash along Rusk's shoulder, then set a screen around his bed. "You can ask him your questions after he stops bleeding," she told Zeb. "Unless you prefer your answers from a corpse."
I heard every word from my bed. The screen was linen, not stone.
In the morning Zeb allowed me to sit opposite the prisoner, with Lora beside me and Paxton taking notes. Rusk was broad even in a borrowed infirmary shirt. The scars around his mouth were older than the wo
