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The cold intensified, closing in on them with each passing moment. The snow began to weigh on her back, and blurred her vision. But the only sight that came to pass was a thick veil of white, closing out any scene of a more common and natural landscape.
It took not a second for the Praefectus to understand that she was lost. Without the sight of a landmark, nor the scent of their trail she did not know in which direction to go. Mati slowed to a stop, the sound of Parker’s voice calling to her. With the dark pup in her jaws she turned to look behind her, the faces of the youths looking at her through the sheet of falling snow.
Bright gold eyes told her what she had been thinking, and then in silence she turned from her western trudge to a more northern trek. The fey had lived within the borders of the Dreaming territory for all her years. She was not one to wander but she had explored just about every inch of her home, she had known that the Skip Caves was north of their chosen hunting grounds.
Paw step after paw step they moved through the deepening snow. Her hope was that she wasn’t wrong in her sense of direction, but the female didn’t know what else to do. It was the only path that did not lead them further into the storm and likely to their deaths. Mati focused on the puppy she carried, and the path she made for the two others behind her rather then the possibility that this could be the end of them all.
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