Torak escapes, helped by Renn, Hord's younger sister, who believes that Torak must go to the Mountain of the World Spirit himself. The other one is that only Torak can find the World Spirit, and kill the bear. One interpretation of this prophecy is that Torak must be sacrificed, and his blood taken to the Mountain of the World Spirit. The prophecy states that the Listener, who talks with silence and fights with air, will offer his heart's blood to the World Spirit and thereby kill the demon-bear. This, together with the dog whistle Torak made to summon Wolf, makes Fin-Kedinn and Saeunn, the Raven Mage, see Torak as the fulfilment of a prophecy about a 'Listener'.

He wins by temporarily blinding Hord with steam from some broth he tipped on the fire. In the Raven camp, Torak fights Hord to prove his innocence.

Torak becomes their prisoner and is taken to the Raven camp, so that his fate can be decided by Fin-Kedinn, the Raven Clan leader. Torak and Wolf are captured unaware by Renn, her brother Hord, and Oslak, of Raven Clan, who were searching for the person who 'stole' their roebuck. Wolf accepts Torak as his pack-brother and becomes Torak's guide. Torak discovers that he can communicate with the cub. Torak heads north and soon encounters an orphaned wolf cub, whose pack was drowned in a flood. Before Torak's father dies, he tells Torak to swear an oath to head north and find the Mountain of the World Spirit, and ask the World Spirit to help destroy the bear before it eliminates all life in the Forest. When Torak is 12 summers old, his father, Fa, is killed by a bear, believed to be possessed by a demon. Torak and his father, of Wolf Clan, live alone in the Forest as outcasts. In the pre-agricultural Europe set six thousand years ago, after the end of the last ice age, the hunter-gatherers of the Forest live in clans. Added to which, it explores a world that was virtually unknown to us with real insight and authority - Anthony Horowitz

It has the three qualities of a classic children's book. Wolf Brother gripped me from the very first page. The vivid prose leaps off the page - The TimesĪn utterly gripping Bronze Age quest, written with compelling economy and detail - New Statesman The kind of story you dream of reading and all too rarely find. The Moon of Red Willow is fast approaching: and soon Torak-and only Torak-must face a foe he can neither outrun nor outwit a foe who stalks him as silently as breath.

Through the whispering spruce trees comes an evil more terrible than any clan can imagine, let alone defeat. But starvation isn't the only thing in the Forest to fear. His only chance of survival is his skill as a hunter. Now his father lies dead: slaughtered by a demon bear. wounded, terrified and on the run.Īn outcast like his father, he has avoided all contact with the clans - until now.

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