One Girl, A Pack Of Beasts novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Long Night Eve
"A white tusk," I said. "There's only one beast in the Wildlands with white tusks."
"There's more than one dead one," the lion said. "Traders keep old ones. Hang them over doors for luck."
"So Brannon comes down in the morning holding a tusk."
"And three hundred cores. And a story." He let the flap fall. "You'd better come down holding more than that."
I slid the tally stick into my boot.
"Thank you," I said.
He didn't answer.
He sat back down on his bucket in the cold, outside the door of a woman who meant to make him sleep by it.
The Long Night feast started at noon the next day.
Every team on the roll ate in the Hall before the horn.
The tables ran the length of the floor, loaded with roast elk and smoked fish and bread still hot from the bakers' ovens.
The board hung over all of it.
GRAY KNIFE at the top, where it had always been.
The old hunter sat at the end of our bench with the tally stick inside his coat.
"Nobody searches a one-armed old man," he'd said. "They think I'm furniture."
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