Stray

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She was shivering by the time the sun rose high into the sky. Susan couldn't stop herself, her clothes were soaked through and the winter still had it's claws dug in deep here at the heart of the forest. The cold draft of air wailing between the bare branches of the trees didn't help much either.

"Hurry it up pup."

Blinking she turned her head to see the wolf was standing on a stone, it somehow made him look larger than he already was. Even more intimidating as he looked back at her with eyes the color of coal. She remembered reading about dire wolves in works of fantasy at school and this particular wolf seemed to fit the bill to the T.

With a sigh she trudged up the side of the hill, moving inbetween the large boulders surrounding them. She wished he would tell her where they were going, that he would stop trailing back around and checking her progress through the terrain, sometimes nipping near her heels at the edge of the coat that barely managed to go past her ankles.

It was only when the sky was darkening once more and she could swear her vision was going fuzzy when he motioned her towards the wall of stone to their left. Without much thought she slipped into the cave only to collapse on the floor soon after and fall into a deep sleep.