I don't need saving!

She snorted in surprised amusement as he took her bad joke and ran with it. Good for him. He didn’t seem to take any shit from hard-headed damsels lost in the woods. Of course, sometimes it felt like she got her directions a bit muddled too. Dire wolf staring down her black-coated stranger in the snow? Charge right in. Have any ‘ol friendly wolf come within a few feet of her? Definitely time to panic.

She sighed softly, startled when he suddenly moved, pulling himself to his paws. What was he doing? He started to move, then paused. Perhaps not willing to leave without a passing goodbye. “It’s Sera. and yours?” she hadn’t had anybody run in to help her like that before. It was strange, and new, and she wanted to at least know his name. Of course. She also didn’t want him to get up and leave, but she wasn’t going to say that out loud.


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