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The forest has a way of calming me unlike any other place, any other person, in the world. So the next day, I spent a great deal of time sitting on my favorite stump, my eyes closed, feeling the forest’s power flow through me. Everything that had happened in the last few days had begun to accumulate inside of me, and my nerves were a wreck. After sitting outside for a few hours, I was beginning to feel a lot better about the situation with Ben. I still hadn’t come to terms with how Starla had treated me and how her delicate condition was going to affect the rest of the pack, but the more time I spent in the forest, the more I was reminded that we would all be okay.
The crunching of feet on leaves and snow had me opening my eyes and peering off through the evergreen trees to see who was approaching. It wasn’t a cadence I recognized. When Starla stepped into my line of sight,
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