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The warning snarl froze them in their tracks. As they stopped, it stepped down a further two paces, its heavily clawed paws seeking and[narrator] finding purchase in the steep rock face of the cliff where none seemed possible. [whisper] ‘What is it?’ [whispered Gryff, his throat dry with terror. ‘It’s a direwolf,’ Owen told him, in the same low tones. A direwolf: a beast out of myth and fable, belonging to an earlier age.