Chloe has taken to hunting in the woods mostly in her wolf form, whose four legs handle the sudden quakes better than her normal two. The trade-off is that she mostly operates on instinct in this shape, so when she hears a man calling for help, she doesn't think about how alarming her presence might be to him.

That's how, the next time he looks up, Ragnar might spot a small, light-coloured wolf with a lumpy red bundle wrapped around its chest standing at the edge of the clearing and staring at him, trying to figure out whether he's injured from a distance.