Hope
We spent the next two weeks with Bjorn and my sisters. While Orsa wasn’t openly hostile to me again after Levi talked to her, she wasn’t as warm as her sisters either. I definitely got a feel for what it’s like to live this primitively. While it works for them, I was ready to go when Levi and I finally said our goodbyes.
“Will we see you again, girl?” my father asks as I hug him goodbye.
“I’d love that. If I’m welcome …”
“You’re always welcome here, girl. You’re mine, even if I didn’t know about you until now,” he said as I hugged him.
After the first day of sparring, my father pushed me harder. His fighting style is so different than the wolves that I learned a lot about how to protect myself against animals that are considerably larger than I am. While he went easy on me, he wa
