Thread:SalemtheCruel/@comment-4547544-20111024202312

Here is "Chapter" one.

First "Go on, go one, one paw in front of the other!" Over and over again the thought circled by the head of the young mink. He tried to ignore everything around him: the cold that crept into every bone in his emaciated body, his sodden fur that slowly froze, the wind who bit him in the nose and rang in his ears. Hardest to ignore was the slide he carried along with him and every few feet caught in a snowdrift. The mink fell to his knees as the slide broke with a jerk from the drift. And then he heard in the roar of the storm the song again and knew that he was on the right track. "Go on!"  