Loudly he howled and paced away. We made after him and beheld as he dived at the branches of trees and left a few secondary branches snapping under his weight.

“You didn’t give him complete dose of the virus. Why?” Julius revealed to me and we stared into each other’s face.

I grinned and stole a glance at Sasha who was getting warmth by the fire place now.

Julius was still staring at me with discontentment, obviously expecting explanation for my decisions.

The dark-red wolf caught our attention when he dived at the limbs of an antelope that came in sight and was clawed to death instantly. A bird that...