Finished, the ranger looked at the message with the addled confidence of exhaustion. I can do this. All I need is Jazrac's knife, she told herself as she carefully rolled the bark into a tube and tucked it away out of sight
Disregarding the fleas and lice, Martine pulled the furs around her and lay back, waiting for sleep to overtake her. Overhead, the whistling blasts of the wind shook the wicker frame of the hut till the necklaces hanging from its spars began to vibrate softly, chattering their tales. Just as she was about to drift into sleep, she heard a hissing wail from somewhere in the frigid night. It was a cold voice that scoured the sky with its fiendish rage, and Martine knew the thing on the glacier was hunting.
Comforting sleep never came.