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“Let’s go, Wolfmother.”
“I can’t stay away from here for long. If you insist on leaving, go alone.”
“What if I want you to sleep with me?”
“Then sleep here.” She straightened. All around, the wolves dropped and huddled, forming a vast, snow‑white, fur‑soft bed. She pointed at it. “Here.”
“I heard a Wolfmother once bore a child out in the wider world.”
“A fabrication, meant to draw us closer to the Nine Flames. Tell a lie often enough and it becomes truth.”
Li Yuan laughed, swept her up, and leapt onto the living mattress; the wolves sagged but held. “Think the gods will feel insulted if we do it in front of their tomb?”
She froze, eyes flying open, an angle she hadn’t considered.
He chuckled, flipped back to the ground, and called to her across the wolf...



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