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Mjolner must have done his walking through walls trick to get outside. I had to take the more conventional route, quietly opening and closing the door behind me. Then I stayed there on the porch for a moment, looking around for signs of trouble.
My grandmother's spell had indeed disappeared, and the center of the hamlet was still and dark. With so many trees close around the cluster of cabins, the moon was creating more shadows than light.
But even in the darkness I could see that Mjolner was hunting again, his tail snaking back and forth as he stalked with his face low to the ground. I watched as he made a large circuit of the center of the hamlet, but when he started zeroing in his attention on a smaller area, it was the same three cabins as before.
One was Frór, and I already kne
