19. Sparrow and the wolf boy.

"She was pelting down the cove bootless, looking as she ran into the grey, rain-speckled water. Some unknown instinct was driving her onward and telling her that the answer was in the lake.

Dread made her breath catch and her palms sweat. Her heart was beating in her ears. Tella was moving so fast that she almost ran straight into Izac, he stood petrified at the lip of the lake. A black wolf lay next to him growling at the water. The boy was nonsensical with hysterics. He screamed and pointed to the shallows, mumbling between quiet, broken sobs, “I can't swim, I can't swim...”" 

From chapter nineteen of Tellan. 

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