She caught movement out of the corner of her eye and turned to see a giant wolf emerge from the forest to the east. It was the same one she had seen when she’d watched Sorin with Talwyn back in Baylorin. Scarlett stilled, but the panther walked towards it. The two seemed to stare each other down in some sort of stand off, before the wolf gave a bow of its head in Scarlett’s direction. There were other animals here, too. The red bird she had glimpsed in Sorin’s rooms that day they’d arrived was soaring in a tight circle above them along with a silver hawk. A large, red stag and a stunning,
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