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Chapters (76)
  1. Also By
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Map
  6. Chapter One: Ujurak
  7. CHAPTER ONE:
  8. Chapter Two: Lusa
  9. CHAPTER TWO:
  10. Chapter Three: Toklo
  11. CHAPTER THREE:
  12. Chapter Four: Kallik
  13. CHAPTER FOUR:
  14. Chapter Five: Lusa
  15. CHAPTER FIVE:
  16. Chapter Six: Toklo
  17. CHAPTER SIX:
  18. Chapter Seven: Toklo
  19. CHAPTER SEVEN:
  20. Chapter Eight: Ujurak
  21. CHAPTER EIGHT:
  22. Chapter Nine: Kallik
  23. CHAPTER NINE:
  24. Chapter Ten: Lusa
  25. CHAPTER TEN:
  26. Chapter Eleven: Toklo
  27. CHAPTER ELEVEN:
  28. Chapter Twelve: Ujurak
  29. CHAPTER TWELVE:
  30. Chapter Thirteen: Kallik
  31. CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
  32. Chapter Fourteen: Ujurak
  33. CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
  34. Chapter Fifteen: Toklo
  35. CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
  36. Chapter Sixteen: Kallik
  37. CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
  38. Chapter Seventeen: Ujurak
  39. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
  40. Chapter Eighteen: Lusa
  41. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
  42. Chapter Nineteen: Ujurak
  43. CHAPTER NINETEEN:
  44. Chapter Twenty: Toklo
  45. CHAPTER TWENTY:
  46. Chapter Twenty-One: Ujurak
  47. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE:
  48. Chapter Twenty-Two: Kallik
  49. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO:
  50. Chapter Twenty-Three: Lusa
  51. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE:
  52. Chapter Twenty-Four: Toklo
  53. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR:
  54. Chapter Twenty-Five: Lusa
  55. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE:
  56. Chapter Twenty-Six: Toklo
  57. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX:
  58. Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kallik
  59. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN:
  60. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Lusa
  61. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT:
  62. Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ujurak
  63. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE:
  64. Chapter Thirty: Kallik
  65. CHAPTER THIRTY:
  66. Chapter Thirty-One: Toklo
  67. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE:
  68. Chapter Thirty-Two: Ujurak
  69. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO:
  70. Chapter Thirty-Three: Ujurak
  71. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE:
  72. Chapter Thirty-Four: Kallik
  73. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR:
  74. About the Author
  75. About the Publisher
  76. Cover

As he beckoned to his friends, he saw that Maria was looking disappointed. ‘Can’t you stay?’ she pleaded. ‘I’ll bring you all food. None of my friends are going to believe that I had three bears in my backyard!’

Ujurak shook his head. ‘I’m sorry. We have to keep going.’ He turned to leave; Toklo was already heading down the BlackPath in the direction Maria had pointed.

Chapter Thirty-Three: Ujurak

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE:

Ujurak

‘Don’t go yet,’ Maria said. ‘You can’t go around with no clothes on! Just wait here a minute.’ She disappeared, scrambling back through her window. Ujurak fidgeted on the spot, while Toklo fretted impatiently a few paces further down the BlackPath, and Lusa and Kallik stood close together, talking in low voices.

A few moments later Maria came back. She had a thick pelt bundled in her arms, and two heavy things the shape of flat-face feet clutched in one paw.

‘Put these on,’ she ordered. ‘They’ll keep you warm.’

Ujurak stripped off the pink pelt she had given him earlier and put on the new one. It was too big for him, covering his paws and almost trailing on the ground, but it was heavy and warm, and he huddled gratefully into its folds. It was so much colder being a flat-face! But I’d better stay a flat-face while we’re here, he thought. I can protect the others if the flat-faces think I’m one of them.

‘Now the boots,’ Maria said, putting the foot-pelts on the ground. ‘No,’ she added as Ujurak picked one up and tried to stick his foot into it. ‘The other way round!’

Ujurak didn’t like the feeling of the foot-pelts on his feet. They were stiff and clumsy. How can flat-faces feel the earth if they go around in these all the time? he wondered. But he had to admit that his feet didn’t feel so cold inside them.

Flat-faces need so much . . . stuff. It’s much better to be a bear.

‘Thank you, Maria,’ he said. ‘We’ll never forget what you’ve done for us.’

To his surprise, Maria stepped up close to him and gave him a hug. ‘Whoever you are, good luck,’ she murmured.

Ujurak smiled awkwardly and nodded. ‘Goodbye,’ he said.

Lusa padded up and nosed Maria’s hand in a friendly way. Maria patted her on the snout. ‘Goodbye, bears. Take care.’

‘Come on!’ Toklo called.

Ujurak turned and began trudging down the Black-Path, his steps feeling heavy in the foot-pelts. Kallik and Toklo flanked him on either side, while Lusa brought up the rear. Before they turned the next corner, Ujurak glanced back to see Maria still standing outside her house, looking after them. She raised a paw and waved, and Ujurak waved back to her before they rounded the corner and lost sight of her.