As soon as Lily heard that she could help, she eagerly led Hao Ren to where she lived. In her view, anything that needed doing had to be planned carefully. Even if the sky was falling, she had to take her guest home for a meal first.
Though this silly girl had wanted to travel south in search of a big city and somehow ended up heading north all the way to Siberia, and though she was a bit of a scatterbrain, her wilderness survival skills and motivation were absolutely top-notch. After leaving the village, she hadn't simply buried her head and hurried onward. Instead, she had explored "the outside world" with boundless curiosity as she traveled north, stopping and starting along the way. Whenever she encountered somewhere interesting, she would stop and play for a while before continuing. Altogether, this had consumed several years.
For a Werewolf girl who had grown up in an isolated mountain village and had been forced to suppress her nature throughout her childhood, those years of travel were probably the happiest days she had experienced since birth.
Now that she lived alongside a pack of Siberian wolves, the place she called home was naturally far from any trace of humanity. Deep in a dense pine forest stood a small cabin abandoned by a hunter. The hunter who had built it had long since vanished, and the human presence that had once existed nearby had already been swallowed by wind and snow. The cabin in the forest had thus become Lily's temporary home.
The Wolf pack had its own resting places around the cabin. After Lily gave them the order to disperse, the beasts vanished into the depths of the forest in the blink of an eye. Hao Ren sensed that most of them had