His glaffling turned to joy. He began to howl louder than ever. How often had he looked at the spiraling lines on his paw and felt as if they marked a larger pattern, a larger plan, one of endlessly swirling harmonies like the movement of the stars. For they, too, were part of something larger as the sky turned around the earth. Of all this, Faolan howled.
The Sark and Gwynneth, waiting for him at least two leagues away, turned to each other. “What is he howling?” Gwynneth asked.
“Ursulana, the Cave of Souls. Two heavens are one,” the Sark replied softly to the Masked Owl.
So sayeth Faolan, Watch wolf of the Ring.
Author’s Note
THE AUTHOR WISHES TO ACKNOWLEDGE that the Namara’s speech in Chapter 22, “Drums of War,” is based largely on General George S. Patton’s speech to the American Third Army, Sixth Armored Division, on May 31, 1944, in England shortly before the Allied invasion of Normandy.
About the Author
KATHRYN LASKY is the author of the bestselling Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, which has sold more than four million copies and has been made into a major motion picture, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. Her books have received a Newbery Honor, a Boston Globe—Horn Book Award, and a Washington Post—Children’s Book Guild Award. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“In this tightly plotted, lyrical tale … [Lasky] builds the wolf society as if it were a human tribe of both wise and blind leaders, living in a culture of cruelty, survival, evil, and honor.”
— School Library Journal,
praise for Wolves of the Beyond Book 2: Shadow Wolf
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by Kathryn Lasky
Interior illustrations by Richard Cowdrey
Interior illustrations © 2011 by Scholastic Inc.
Cover art by Richard Cowdrey
Cover art © 2011 by Scholastic Inc.
Cover design by Lillie Howard
All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. SCHOLASTIC, SCHOLASTIC PRESS, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lasky, Kathryn.
Watch wolf / Kathryn Lasky ; [interior illustrations by Richard Cowdrey]. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Wolves of the Beyond ; [3])
Summary: Faolan, poised to take his place as a member of the revered Wolves of the Watch, may be the only one who can stop Dunbar MacHeath and his clan from provoking a war between the Watch and the bears.
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-09314-9
ISBN-10: 0-545-09314-7
[1. Wolves — Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Cowdrey, Richard, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.L3274Wat 2011
[Fic] — dc22
2010049786
First edition, June 2011
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Map
Part One: The Journey
Thus Sayeth the Fengo
Chapter One: Under the Stars
Chapter Two: Winter Dreams on a Summer Night
Chapter Three: The Scent of the River
Chapter Four: A True Gnaw Wolf?
Chapter Five: Blood and Thorns
Chapter Six: The Obea Speaks
Chapter Seven: Tatters
Part Two: The Ring
Chapter Eight: View From a Ridge
Chapter Nine: The Hot Gates
Chapter Ten: The Bone of Bones
Chapter Eleven: Dunbar Macheath Considers
Chapter Twelve: First Watch
Chapter Thirteen: Escape of the She-Wolves
Chapter Fourteen: The She-Winds
Chapter Fifteen: A Twinge in the Marrow
Chapter Sixteen: Old Cags
Chapter Seventeen: Shadows of War
Chapter Eighteen: Graymalkin
Chapter Nineteen: Killing Fear
Chapter Twenty: Breaking Rules
Chapter Twenty-One: The Pit
Chapter Twenty-Two: Drums of War
Chapter Twenty-Three: “Edme! Edme! Edme!”
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Black Glass Desert
Chapter Twenty-Five: Eight Moons Passing
Epilogue
Author’s Note
About the Author
Copyright