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First Ambush

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I was starting to find that I was glad that I had stumbled upon the outcasts. For one, the first thing that had gone wrong had been solved immediately, and I was left speechless at how quickly they had managed to avert the crisis I had preempted. Luke, the deaf guy had been leading us ahead, and he seemed to have missed the sight of a stray twig that was lying on the ground. I thanked the gods that he could not hear how absurdly loud the noise he had managed to make because everyone’s heads swiveled around in shock.

We had been passing through an uncomfortable patch of trees that we suspected belonged to a pack of wolves that were not the most welcoming, and it was such a considerable amount of space that skirting around it would have taken too long. I had not been the one to notice that we were in another pack’s territory – that had been Lee – but I had taken the lead on skirting through and staying out of sight. As someone who had worked as a maid in a home that I was not wanted in
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