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The Firstwalker By Colleen Thomas MissColly@aol.com

Tal'Marin stooped in the deep snow and carefully examined the ground. There were drifts up to her eyes or higher in places, but here under the firs the snow was not as deep. She was surrounded by the huge boles of ancient fir trees in a primordial forest that stretched away for leagues in any direction. The snow here was fresh, which was usually a help to her in exercising her craft. Tal was a ranger and tracking wild beasts was as much a part of her daily life as protecting the forest. Snow was usually her ally, but this snow was very powdery and the whipping wind blew it around so much that tracks were gone in minutes. This time she could only make out the faintest outline of her prey's track. The track was nearly filled with snow and only the keen eyes of an elf enabled her to make out the indistinct outline. She was at least a half hour behind the beast, maybe a little less; it was so difficult to estimate because of the uneven nature of the winds in this forest. It was hard to see beyond the next tree because the wind was whipping up now and gusting hard enough to dump snow from the fir boughs. The sun was still shining and would be for several hours even though she had been on the trail for over thirteen this day. This far north there was never really a night during winter, just a brief period of semi twilight.

"Soon Snowclaw," she said to the winter eagle that perched restlessly on her gloved arm. He was one of the rare breed of eagles that made their ...

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