The group continued to walk, their march only broken for them to sleep and eat. Dropping to the ground exhausted, Alessia wiped her arm across her sweating brow as Nate pulled a bottle of water out of his bag and handing it to her. The she wolf took it gratefully, twisting off the top and taking a few huge gulps.
‘Thank you’ she gasped out when she finally pulled the bottle from her lips.
Nathaniel smiled down at her, ‘no worries Lessi’ he replied, ‘you looked like you needed it.’
Alessia laughed, ‘yeah, I’m not used to this kind of rigorous exercise’ she muttered, ‘some of us didn’t train to be leaders’ she added ruefully.
‘I thought being a horse wrangler, you’d be proper buff Lessi’ Landen called out with a wink.
The she wolf laughed, ‘yeah, see the thing is, we put them in pens
