Chapter 604

• After emptying and repacking his bag with blankets and supplies they’d set out into the storm. The wind was strong and made visibility impossible. He hoped once they got down off the ridge, it would be easier to navigate. Their animals’ coats and big paws were built for weather like this, so at least they weren’t cold.
• The worried-out-of-his-mind mate and father had given them a quick rundown of the land, and the general direction his females usually went. He had headed out and tried to find them, but in the blowing snow had lost his bearings and barely made it back. He was lucky he did, Tripp was struggling to get through it. He’d never seen one of this clan after shifting, but they weren’t exceptionally tall on two legs, he’d noticed. That wasn’t always a sure way of telling their animal size though. Any smaller than his animal’s size and it would be really hard to navigate. His cat was large, probably weighed in around two-twenty.
• He looked at the tail end of his mate that he was having to work hard keeping up with her right now as she zig-zag down into the valley. He hoped it was the valley and not the ravine they were warned about. Carrying the bag on his back was throwing off his balance and his speed, but at least his cat was working with him. He wasn’t sure if it was because of the lost women out there in trouble, or from his mate barreling through the snowstorm ahead of him without an ounce of caution.