“The better to hold you.”
The wolf pulls back the blanket. Not to devour. To show the ribs beneath, the hollow chest. Not Grandmother’s body. Her own. The wolf has been wearing Grandmother like a coat for three days.
“I forgot it a long time ago.”
The wolf-woman sits on the edge of the bed. “Your mother saved my life. I owed her a debt. When she died, I came to watch over you. But Grandmother was already gone—three days before I arrived. A fever. I… I couldn’t let you find her like that.”
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Red steps closer. The wolf’s scent—pine, wet stone, something ancient and female—fills the room.
Red asks.
The voice is gravel and honey. Red does not flinch.