The New Reality continued...

Wolf watched the scrawny slave-man choke down his dried meat and retreat to a corner with his blanket, warily scaning the trees for something that wasn't there. She shook her head and took her own blanket to the opposite side of the clearing.

She could remember her former master well enough, but there were some things that should not be thought of; not now, not ever. She couldn't afford to lose herself in the past, not with this much riding on this, and on her.