This is just the first part. Please review!
If people like it I will post the first chapter. [EDIT] You can get to it here:
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Prologue
She ran, faster and faster, towards the approaching herd of caribou. The large brown mass morphed into separate shapes: feet, ears, churning hooves. Her eyes searched left; she saw an ink-black wolf, the largest of the pack, the alpha. She curved quickly to the right, separating a caribou from the rest of its herd. The animal moved with a painful –looking limp. Blood oozed from a long gash on its left foreleg. The other members of the pack closed in, setting the ambush into effect. The injured animal was trapped between the lake and the wolves. The caribou hesitated only momentarily, then leaped over the horsetails standing sentinel on the lake shore. The animal’s pumping legs carried her quickly far out into the lake. The wolves gathered by the shore’s edge, and after a series of silent signals from the alpha, half of the pack disappeared into the thick brush.
She padded along after the alpha male, following a well worn track through gooseberry bushes, black spruce and jack pine. Something made her stop, her breath momentarily suspended as she listened, ears twitching first forward and then behind. An inexplicable sense of foreboding made her walk faster, eyes darting from side to side. She stopped and scented the breeze. She detected a slightly acrid, metallic smell. Too late to leap out of harm’s way, she saw a flash of metal and almost immediately felt a searing pain lance up her foreleg. Everything went black.
(JK)
