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Scarlet knotted her lips to one side "How iments are left on Luna?"

This ti, Scarlet rubbed at her brow "I knew better I knew better than to listen to you Winter We could be wandering down here for days and not see a single person And even if we do find one of these regiments, or packs, or whatever they call the to eat us This is suicide!" She pointed back the direction they’d coo back then" Winter continued down the endless tunnel

Scarlet let out a bedraggled groan and sto to walk for thirty etting closer, then we are turning around and going back, and I a no for an answer I’ll club you over the head and drag you back if I have to"

Winter fluttered her lashes, aht "We will find them, Scarlet-friend They will join us Your Wolf is proof that they arethem with Wolf Wolf is different The rest of them … they are monsters I met Wolf’s pack in Paris, and they were brutal and terrible And that was her special ops, and they’re still mostly human! You can’t reason with these monsters any lared "Exactly"

"Ryu was my friend"

Scarlet threw her hands into the air "What are you going to do, play fetch with the They are under Levana’s control, or whoever their thaue is They will do what they’re told, and that will be to eat us"

"They were young boys forced into a difficult situation They did not ask for this life, just as your Wolf didn’t ask for it, but they have done what they needed to do to survive If they are given the opportunity to break their binds of enslavement, I believe they will take it I believe they will side with us"

Winter heard a distant, lol, and shivered Scarlet didn’t see

"You have no idea whose side they’ll take They’ve been so er piece of steak" Scarlet hesitated "What’s wrong? Are you hallucinating right now?"

Winter forced a sination, but how could I ever be sure one way or the other? So I will go on believing you are real"

Scarlet looked uniic "You knohat these ain"

"I would think that you, of all people, would believe in their ability to change Wolf changed because of his love for you Why can they not change also?" She started walking again

"Wolf is--it’s not the sa your eyelashes at everyone alks by and expecting the to happen here They are going to laugh at you andto--"

"Eattheabout huge teeth and digestive syste "We only wanted a snack to eat"

Scarlet grunted "You can be so disturbing"

Winter hooked her elboith Scarlet’s "Don’t be afraid They will help us"

Before Scarlet could uent An anierie, but different Sweat and salt and body odorrank, like old meat

"Well," said Scarlet, "I think we found them"