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Li Yuan vanished into the drifts and soon returned hauling a hibernating black bear. He cleaned, gutted, and strung it up. Then a single breath of flame roared from his lungs, setting the meat sizzling while the Wolfmother sat beneath a white sky, waiting for the single splash of red she had never seen.
The bear began to roast at once, Li Yuan’s flame licking evenly across the carcass until both sides gleamed a perfect brown.
Three days and nights passed.
At dusk of the fourth day, the snow broke at last. Like a miracle wrung from the heavens, a band of sunset flared on the far rim of the sky.
Crimson light flooded the newly stilled world.
The Wolfmother tipped back her head, rapt.
Li Yuan glanced at her, then looked away. They would never be true friends, much less anything more. He had granted this request out of measured sympathy,...
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