*Walker POV* "Walker, can you grab that half of elk and put it on the table for me? I need to help load the blood bags into the van for Blood Fang. Kirk is on a time crunch," my uncle DJ asked. I decided to help him today while I waited for my sisters to finish their lessons with Asteria. She was teaching them some simple healing potions as well as a few protection spells that they had requested. I walked into the cooler and grabbed the only half slab of elk I could find, and carried it to the butchering table. I stared at the meat, and tried to remember each cut. It had been a long time since I actually butchered an animal myself, but surprisingly, the cuts came pretty easily. No one knew it, but my brother, Waylon, had been teaching me how to be a great cook like him. Under this

