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Skirting the crater, she went around to the porch side No Wolf or Penny, but plenty of prints No blood They didn’t hurt Wolf; they took him alive The blast of relief made her knees wobble That she was relievedshe didn’t want to look at that just yet
"But Finn"He’s experied already I think he’s tried the sa about that?
No, better question: Did she need to do anything at all?
She could act, if she wanted She had an advantage, a bit of knowledge Finn didn’t She’d first thought the whole wolf shtick was soht be But Wolf was an exception It was a leap, but she thought she was right Soed couldn’t smell wolves
What she’d taken to beWolf had used wolf skins and carcasses to hide the feeding grounds outside Rule and his kills froed This was probably the sa totems here, to shield the house and protect their food supply She reed who’d been chasing Wolf, Marley, and Ernie The Changed had no trouble tracking the last two boys But they couldn’t quite get a fix on Wolf He’d been a blank, caed and invisible
"That’s why Darth didn’t see you," she said to the wolfdog "He couldn’t smell you, so he never knew you were there" Hoould that work? Dogs were related to wolves They always smelled each other’s bums, and she bet wolves did, too Coot spooked, that little stinker let go of sooo froine that the saht lure one species would either repel or not register with another
The wolfdog was the key So long as it stayed close, the Changed couldn’t smell her Sure, if they spotted her, she was cooked But otherwise?
She was invisible
"A week ago, I chowed down on ants, and now I catch two rabbits in one day Wouldn’t you know I’d hit the jackpot now? Here" Peeling skin fro wolfdog "Make it last," she said, as the ani rabbit
Wherever you calad you showed up when you did Picking up the second rabbit, she grabbed a back leg, punched through the thin skin with a thu fascia away fro the skin over the carcass’s head like an inside-out bodysuit This one, she’d gut and roast No need for raw heart this tiht in Peter’s boathouse The weird thing: she couldn’t get comfortable It had been months since she’d slept on a mattress and with a pillow, and she was uncoave up, wrapped herself in a blanket, strapped on the headlamp, and spread the atlases from Peter’s bookshelf on the floor
Once she hiked out to a o anywhere Her earlier ideas about warning Chris seey If Peter ith Finn, Rule was in er trouble than she’d realized She also had no way of tracking Toan, only two destinations made sense: Rule or Oren The dead boy from Oren had her whistle, which ht be, the chances of stuirl were ten trillion to one