I ran down the dark street to the cross roads confident that I had weaved and twisted around enough from my starting point. I raised my nose and sniffed intently at the air for a few seconds until I became confident that there was nobody about. I shook my rain-soaked hair out of my face and raised my head, filling my lungs deeply. We weren’t allowed to do this really but I needed to find Jamie. I lifted my head to the sky and I howled loudly. If he was out looking which I knew he was, he would hear this and know my voice as I would know any of my brother’s voices. I called to him I was telling him where I was, there were clearly no complex messages in a howl but this was ‘here I am’. There were also howls for distress, pain and anger as well as threats obviously. I listened intently but he
