If I hadn’t known everything I knew at this point, I would have been scared. They were awesome. All eleven were facing me, their eyes on mine. I couldn’t say which of them was the most beautiful, the most intimidating. Their shimmering colours shone with the reflections of the flames, they all had different fur, sometimes light or dark, shaggy or smooth, coloured or plain. I noticed a grey wolf much smaller than the others; Georgia. She was magnificent. I wanted to approach them, stroke them, but I hesitated. Maybe they wouldn’t have liked me to touch them? However, envy burned my fingers, it upset me. The taller one sat up on his hind legs and let out a howl that echoed up behind the hills. His wild animal cry would have frozen the blood of many humans. They would have been afraid. Bu