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"This way," Stil called, trudging through the snow,towards Lake Sno

"How is your shoulder?" Gemma asked

"It’s fine It aches a little, but it will pass Angelique used soic on h that does re at the edge of the forest was the white lupine with black paws and black facial ed

"It followed you?" Gemma asked

"No, it followed you It was already here, sniffing outside the palace walls e arrived this ," Stil confirmed

"But it is a hellhound, and it crossed the border?" Ge the creature

"Whatever it is, it’s not a hellhound anylows like a firefly in the ht"

"Do you think it was the starfire it sed?" Geo back to being a hellhound?"

"No Whatever you did was perelique Hellhounds are exclusively used by practitioners of dark ed a new kind of canine," Stil said as they hiked past the creature

Ge

The white furred animal happily yipped and broke away fro wildly as it followed Gemma and Stil

Stil and Ge them When they rounded a bend of the lake, Geelique was outside, leading a bare-backed Pegasus, who gleah breaks in the clouds

"Ge on her lovely face "I alad you are safe"

"As aelique laughed "It was no trouble at all It was a pleasure, actually It is relieving to deliver happiness in a ti her et here?" Stil asked, rubbing the donkey’s face

"Not over an hour ago He was quite unhappy and put out I don’t think he appreciated being left behind," Angelique said

"He couldn’t have possibly kept up with Pegasus, and we left hiht it was the ideal situation for such a disagreeable animal," Stil said as the donkey--to Geree to lean into Stil’s hand

"Perhaps," Angelique said She glanced between Stil and Geasus loose for the night He needs to stretch"

"Certainly," Gee "Enjoy?"