The search for Emma is going nowhere. Not literally, literally speaking the search for Emma is going all over the Frostbacks, and Ruby is starting to suspect that maybe she needs to spread her search further. She's been running for hours, relentless, sniffing and tracking and doubling back and doing everything she can, and she's got nothing.

In retrospect, she should have known the ravine was too wide and that she was too tired. She lands in the water with a painful splash of water slapping up her side. Somehow she keeps her head from going under. And then there's a small waterfall, and everything becomes a lot less fun.

Now the Wolf is paddling along the side of the river to try and find herself a way out, clambering up rocks and slipping so that she falls against them with a thud.