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me!" said Cassie. "I'm very, very sensitive."
    There were chuckles at that.
    "What do we do, Michaela?" I asked.
    "We enjoy getting carried all over the place," she said.
    "Oh, I think I'm going to like this game."
    She smiled. "So am I."
    "Is there a winner?" I asked.
    "Hmm. I suppose there should be a way to win. First wolf to return carrying her partner wins, but we play until we're all back, or an hour has elapsed."
    "Can we steal a mate away again?" Elisabeth asked. "Or once the partner has her, is that really it?"
    "Hmm. The rules reverse. If you can tag Lara while she's carrying me, then she is frozen for two minutes while you steal me again."
    I laughed. I was sure it was going to go the full hour.
    "However," said Michaela, "when Lara is carrying me, I can tag people, and they are frozen for two minutes. More questions?"
    "Do we cooperate?" I asked, "Or do they have to carry me?"
    "Portia has to carry you."
    "Zoe, you should run with them," Portia said. "Don't worry, I'll catch up."
    I laughed. "All right."
    "What about Scarlett and Cassie?" Angel asked. "If they run, I might be faster, but I'm not a lot faster, unless I shift to fur, and then I couldn't carry her back."
    "They should get carried," Lara declared. "But the fox can run if she wants."
    There were no more clarifications, and so Michaela said, "Who is timing?"
    "I am," said Francesca.
    "Play to win," Michaela said. "If all four of us are still prisoners an hour from now, then all of you win. Well, except for our partners. Call the start, Francesca."
    "Ready... go!"
    Immediately, Iris and Lindsey took off with me, running south, with a half dozen other wolves running along with us. We went south then soon began curving east, and I was entirely lost.
    The trees went past in a blur, and I couldn't help but laugh. But they came to a stop.
    "If you keep laughing so loudly, we get to gag you," Iris said. She grinned. "Part of this game is to make her find you."
    "I'll try to be quiet," I said. "Honestly I will."
    A wolf howled a minute or so later, and we were still rushing through the trees.
    Then they passed me off, and it was Valeria and Layton pulling me along. And a while after that, Ember and Aidan.
    And then we came to a stop. Iris stepped up to me. "Turn her around." They turned me the other direction, and then Iris reached over and said, "Open your mouth, Zoe."
    I behaved, and she began filling my mouth with rags.
    I thought that was funny, too. She tied it off, and then we were racing through the trees again.
    I laughed into the gag.
    I continued to get traded off. The wolves were breathing hard now, but still we ran.
    And then I heard, "Oh shit, here she is! Go! Go! Go!"
    Then I heard Lindsey call out. "She tagged me!"
    I looked over my shoulder. Lindsey froze where she was, and Portia was dashing after us. She tagged Iris. And then Ember said, "Let Portia have her, but then tag her!"
    She and Aiden set me down, and then all of them were trying to evade Portia. I stood where I was. Portia saw me and ran over, picking me up, and an instant later, she was swarmed by all of them.
    "Damn it," she said.
    Valeria and Ember grabbed me from her and we ran.
    It was several minutes before Iris and Lindsey caught up to us, but Portia was only seconds behind them. Aiden and Layton set me down, but this time, Portia ran around, trying to tag everyone. She got Layton, but when her back was turned, Iris and Lindsey grabbed me, and they got me a hundred yards away before Portia realized and ran after us. It became another chase, but she was a lot faster than they were. Again they set me down, and again, it became a game of tag.
    Every time Portia chased after someone else, two wolves stepped up to me and tried to rush me away, and so it became a traveling game.
    But then she got them all tagged, spread out all over the forest, Ember and Valeria tagged last.
    Portia grabbed me, picked me up, and began running. I wrapped my arms around her neck and held on.
    I had no