Mari's knees shook. "Summer, where did you go?" Her voice was full of concern. "I-" Summer burst into sorry and frightened tears; "I went to find you breakfast, a-and I caught a mouse. I really did dad!" She piped up, then turned sad again, "I saw a big black figure, and I thought it was a deer, so I bit at it's leg. He growled at me, and flung me into the snow. Then he sniffed me, and realized who I was. He smelled momma on me, and remembered how she had attacked him." She whimpered, and threw herself against Aki's leg, trembling with fright.