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aliens, the birdmen had had other ideas. Promises bound the wolves to
Dion, so the mental link between them was strong. If the telepathic birdmen
could hear the wolves, they could also hear the wolfwalker. Dion shivered.

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Silver Moons, Black SteelтАФHarper, Tara K - Wolf 05


No matter how many others were bound into the packsong, the oaths had
been made with her voice in the gray, and it was she who held the internal
power the Ancients had once wielded. Now, just as men hid their science
underground, Dion must hide her mind in distance from those alien peaks,
even if it turned her south into the hands of the Ariyens. She stared north.
Nightmare images rose from deep in her mind, and talons seemed to slice
her bodyтАж Her lack of motion suddenly seemed like fetters. She made her
decision abruptly: some promises were best kept at a distance.
The gray song seemed to read her determination, for it became sharp and
focused. Automatically, Dion reached for the wolf she had left behind. She
stretched toward Ariye, seeking the voice she knew as well as her own.
Hishn, she breathed into the gray. The wolf pack seethed with the name.
Hishn, Hishn. A female wolf echoed the name into the mental packsong.
The image of DionтАЩs partner wolf howled back like ripples across the
hundreds of kays, across mountains, through forests, and into the racial
memories where threads of other wolves had carried that lupine name. The
call diluted, wavered, and passed on until it was lost. The distance was
deafening.
Dion closed her eyes. She had been gone too long from her gray half, and
her need for the wolf had been growing like an addiction. If she was ever to
meet her promises, she must be whole again. She threw back her head and
let her human throat mimic the lupine call. тАЬHishn,тАЭ she howled.
Wolfwalker! the wolves bayed back.
As if bidden, they flowed back toward Dion from the forest. Like a gray
wave, fourteen wolves loped through the wicked barrier hedge, across the
stubbled field. Dion stretched out her hands to pull in those threads of gray.
Gray-white, gray, gray-black. It was a flow of power that swept her with
almost frightening intent. The wolfwalker did not flinch. Yellow eyes
gleamed. Fanged teeth bared to the cold. They struck her position like a
solid wall of gray, then melted against her. Like a dustdevil, they swirled at
her thighs, not quite brushing her trousers. Musk, hot breath, grinning jaws,
golden eyesтАж Then they streamed away.
DionтАЩs cloak hit the ground before she was aware that she had shed it. Then
she was sprinting after the wolves, unbuckling her sword on the run and
slinging it diagonally across her back. Her boots crushed stubble, slicked
ruts, crunched snow. Her breath left clouds in the air. She vaulted the rail

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fence at the end of the field, then dodged through the barrier channel. Iron-