Misunderstanding, she got angry.
'Why not? Don't you even care about the pup?'
Again he shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice. 'Too
dangerous.'
'Damn,' she said. 'Damn it all.' True, bitter frustration
had caught her at last, a destructive anger which found no release. She
stood up and paced wildly around the room. He knew what she was feeling,
and it troubled him.
'Where is Akar?' he asked.
'I don't know,' she replied, her anger turning swiftly to
concern, then bordering on panic. 'He's been out since last
night.' It would be the last straw if something had happened.....
She stiffened, hearing a scratching sound at the door. Fearing the
worst, her mind made no connection until she heard a sharp bark, and
Kalus said. 'It's the wolf.'
As she forced open the door against the onslaught of snow-laced wind,
she slid down, shivering in the cold and wet. Akar slipped past her.
When at last she recovered herself and rose and closed the door, she
leaned back against it to face him, her emotions strained to the limit.
When she saw what he carried she knelt down and embraced him and wept.
Though weak and injured himself, his mobility hampered still further by
the snow, somehow he had done it. A large rabbit lay on the floor
beside him.
'How did you do it?' she stammered.
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