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Turk’s face was drained of color

"Find a way to get hi his"

"What do you mean, three?"

Penny smiled and with Diana’s lips said, "You, me, and Diana"

Howard smelled them before he saw thee to run in panic when Pack Leader slouched onto the road ahead of him He couldn’t outrun a coyote But the coyotes hadn’t attacked anyone in a long time The rumor was that they had been warned off by Sam That hat people said, that Sao medieval on the whole coyote population if they ht Hands Everyone knew that

"Hey," Howard said with all the bluster he could suht Hands You knoho I ry," the coyote said in his slurred, high-pitched, led speech

"Hah, very funny," Howard said Hishis heavy pack down "I don’t have much food, just a boiled artichoke You can have that"

He reached into the pack, fu for the feel of metal He found it, closed his hand around the heavy knife, and pulled it out He waved it in front of hi stupid!"

"Coyote not kill human," Pack Leader said

"Yeah Yeah, you’d better not My boy Bright Hands will burn you s down!"

"Coyote eat Not kill"

Howard tried a couple of times to speak but the words would not co so hard he feared they would collapse "You can’t eatme," he said finally

"Pack leader not kill He kill"

"He?"

Howard felt a prickling on the back of his neck Slowly, horror draining the strength from his muscles, he turned

"Drake," he whispered

"Yeah Hi, there, Howard How’s it going?"

"Drake"

"Yeah, we did that already" Drake unwrapped the whip hand He looked ed from cover to form a circle around Howard