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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

And Ujurak, brown like Toklo, a bear like all four of them. Pushing them onward, led by the voices that told him they hadn’t reached the end of their journey, that more had to be done before the wild could be saved.

I am a bear.

Ujurak gazed up at the healer. How could he possibly know?

‘You . . . you called me little bear,’ he whispered.

The corners of Tiinchuu’s eyes crinkled in amusement as he pointed to the window of his hut. Ujurak saw three wet bear snouts pressed against the glass.

‘Friends of yours, I think,’ Tiinchuu said.

Ujurak smiled as he made out Lusa, Toklo and Kallik’s faces, glad beyond words that they had stayed so close to him.

He closed his hand around the three carvings, thinking sleepily that it felt strange to have skinny little fingers rather than a paw. Comforted by the presence of his friends, he slipped easily into sleep.

Chapter Thirteen: Kallik

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

Kallik

‘He’s alive!’ Kallik yelped. ‘Ujurak is alive!’

‘Get down!’ Toklo pushed her away from the window. ‘The flat-face has seen us.’

‘Don’t worry.’ Lusa dropped to all fours beside them. ‘He won’t hurt us. Look how he helped Ujurak.’

‘Yeah,’ Toklo agreed. ‘It looks like Ujurak’s going to be OK.’ Sounding reluctant, he added, ‘Maybe all flat-faces aren’t bad. Of course, the healer thinks Ujurak is a flat-face. I wonder what he’d do if he knew he was a bear?’

Kallik moved a little further from the window and looked around. The rain had completely stopped and the wind had risen, chasing ragged clouds across the sky. The moon shone fitfully through the gaps between them, and Kallik could make out the steady shining of the Pathway Star.

‘We’d better get out of here,’ she murmured to Lusa and Toklo. ‘We don’t want to risk the other flat-faces finding us.’

‘I think these flat-faces are OK,’ Lusa responded, padding up beside her. ‘The healer is helping Ujurak. He knows we’re here, and he doesn’t seem worried.’

Toklo snorted. ‘Who knows what a flat-face is thinking?’

‘Besides, all the flat-faces might not be the same,’ Lusa added.

But whatever Lusa said, Kallik found it hard to believe that they could be safe in the middle of a flatface denning area. She shook her head.

‘OK, we’ll go.’ Lusa sounded untroubled. ‘Not too far, though. We’ll need to check on Ujurak later.’

Kallik padded after Lusa as she took the lead to the edge of the village and further up the caribou trail. The white bear’s legs were aching and, now that she wasn’t so anxious about Ujurak, she realised how tired and hungry she was. They needed to find a place to rest and something more to eat.