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| Yawning, Ashton settled back down into his blankets and scooted Lightning into his arms again. "Damn Sasha," he whispered to his pup. "She's causing me to hear things in my sleep. Damn her." |

| He closed his eyes but could not go to sleep again. Something troubled him about the scream. It had been too real to be imagined. Perhaps it was an animal being slain by another. |

| "Aye," he whispered to himself. "That must have been where the scream came from. An animal taking advantage of another of its own kind." |

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