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WE PROCEEDED WITH CAUTION for the first few nights after finding the blood-spattered cave But e encountered no further signs of the vah pleasures of the trail as best as we could

Running olves eso Mr Crepsley questions; he considered hi of a wolf expert

Wolves aren’t fast, but they never get tired, so twenty or thirty o hunting, but so as a tea Each pack has a leader, and they share food equally They’re great climbers and can survive any kind of conditions

We hunted with theht star-speckled nights, over the glea the hot, bloody kill Time passed quicker with the wolves around, and the ht, we came to a thick briar patch that covered the floor of a valley sheltered between tering mountains The thorns were extra thick and sharp, capable of pricking the skin of even a full vampire We paused at the mouth of the valley while Mr Crepsley and Gavner decided how to go on

"We could climb the side of one of thea clied if he slipped"

"How about going around?" Gavner suggested

"It would take too long"

"Could we dig a way under?" I asked

"Again," Mr Crepsley said, "it would take too long We will just have to pick our way through as carefully as we can"

He took off his sweatshirt, and so did Gavner

"What are you getting undressed for?" I asked

"Our clothes would protect us a little," Gavner explained, "but we’d cos Best to keep them intact"

When Gavner took off his pants, as wearing a pair of yellow boxer shorts with pink elephants sewn into them Mr Crepsley stared at the shorts incredulously "They were a present," Gavnerfuriously

"From a human female you were romantically involved with, I presume," Mr Crepsley said, the corners of his nor to split into a rare unrestrained s the outline of one of the elephants "She just had very bad taste in underwear"

"And in boyfriends," I added ihter at that and doubled over, tears streah so uessed he could! Even Gavner looked surprised