The same dynamic unfolded time and again as the winter wore on. O-Six tried to lead her charges to every corner of their new territory, only to be thwarted by the Northern Range’s single, solitary road. The males wanted to come with her, but they couldn’t conquer their fear of the mysterious surface and its inherent strangeness, oddly elevated and flat, with no cover, smelling like nothing they’d ever known. And, of course, the road was where the cars were, and the people. It seemed that whatever pack the brothers had been born into had seldom encountered humans, and they, too, were alien and
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