Chapter 15
By the time I reached the battlefield, both sets of combatants were four-legged and entirely intent upon sowing havoc and reaping mayhem. The fingernail moon had drifted behind a cloud in the interim, so I was left guessing about which wolf belonged to which clan. Based on scent similarities, though, I suspected the two sides were relatively evenly matched. Eight young males battled eight other young males, all doing their best to rip off ears and shred enemy skin.
The warriors appeared so intent upon each other, in fact, that I was a bit surprised the female hadn’t taken advantage of their inattention to run back the way she’d come. Instead, the girl hovered just beyond the field of battle, the rich odors of honeysuckle and rose petals whirling around her anxious form.
“You’
