Elementals: Ice Wolves

the nighttime, when nobody would have been disturbed. My apologies. Now, let us continue with the Trial of the Staff. Who seeks to join the Wolf Guard and play their part in protecting our people?” The crowd was still murmuring as f ive children his own age walked up the steps to the dais, three girls and two boys. They were each dressed in their best, and the last girl in line was shaking so hard Anders was pretty sure she was going to fall off the stage before she made it up to the Staff of Hadda and the Trial itself. Anders was still trembling pretty hard himself after the fright the surge of wind had given him. There were at least two dozen more children queuing for their chance to make it up onto the dais. Most of them wouldn’t succeed. In a good month, two or three candidates would successfully transform. Anders always felt sorry for the ones who failed. The f irst boy stepped up to stand front and center as a member of the guard handed Sigrid the staff. Sigrid nodded, and the boy’s face drained of what little color it had, until it almost matched

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