[One second he was on his own, fighting with a wolf with his back to a tree, knowing all the while that he didn't really stand a chance against a wolf. Then he wasn't on his own, and the chances, at least in his eyes, became far more in his favor as another wolf attacked the one trying to devour him. Carolyn, it had to be, and he wasn't going to leave her to fight this wolf on her own, even if he was far less capable in the fight than she was.

Once he had the space to do so, Roddy darted all the way out of the hole in the tree, scurrying under the wolf, and biting the underbelly of the wolf with his razor sharp incisors.]