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WOLF, BECOMING
You met Volyk and Ilya in “Ilya and the Wolf.” Now hear their whole story.
Volyk – oboroten’, wolf by nature and human by magick…
Ilya Borisovich, the gentle, luckless third son of a modern-day merchant prince…
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Chapter One
Eighteen years ago
All tales have a beginning. Some have more than one.
East of the sun and west of the moon, in the long-ago days when magick still filled the world, there lived in the trackless steppes great beasts with the power to assume the shapes of men at will. Even after the magick withdrew itself to its secret fastnesses, those beasts and their descendants carried the gift of the change in their blood. And the stories were passed down, from one generation to the next, until they became legends. Legends told by living legends, all unknowing….
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Ilya’s touch made Volyk’s heart race. “The skins. Need to come off.” Volyk managed that much, before taking the kiss for which Ilya’s mouth begged.
Ilya laughed, a little unsteadily. Volyk could taste the laughter.
“Help me with them.” Ilya caught at Volyk’s hands.
“I would, if I knew how.”
“Here, I’ll show you.” Ilya guided Volyk’s fingers to the first of a series of small disks and showed him how to slip them through openings in the heavy material.
“Why do you want me to do this?” Volyk bit his lip in concentration, moving from one disk to the next in response to Ilya’s urging. “When it would be so much simpler for you?”
“Because I want to feel your hands on me.”
Something in Ilya’s voice made Volyk look up. And something in the human’s eyes spoke directly to the wolf’s soul.
Mine.
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