Wolves of the Thousandth Winter novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Alone

I wore his flannel shirt to the infirmary on Friday, because it was the only warm thing in my flat that smelled like anyone.

I had not seen him in five days.

I had not called, and he had not called.

I told myself that was the plan, and the plan was working.

Maud Aske sat at her scrubbed table with a kettle going and a small bundle of oilcloth in front of her.

"Sit," she said. "Put on the gloves."

I pulled on my white cotton gloves, and she untied the bundle.

Inside lay a thin book bound in green cloth, no bigger than my hand, with a brown stain across the cover.

"This belonged to the last seer's apprentice," Maud said.

"She taught me my letters, in a barn in Aroostook County, in eighteen seventy-nine."

"You knew her."

"She raised me. She is the only person I ever called mother."

"Maud."

"Read it, child. It's not long."

I opened the cover.

The ink was brown and small, in English, in a careful schoolteacher's hand.

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