Lara rolled over in the bed and smiled. "Mmmm. It's good to be home." She snuggled into her lover, barely conscious and happily exhausted even if slightly sore.

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"What would Lara do?" Fliss' tone was meditative. "She'd somehow try to recruit half the molehills?"

"She'd add a threat, the way she kept mentioning Ella?"

"And we're ice wolves!" Fliss' voice rose. "We're more powerful than they are. We should walk in and take their totem!"