The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne Quiz

The ______ was not as sharp as the one Scarlett had in her belt.

Scarlett moved away from the ______ and made directly for the crags.

The ______ was a brindled grey and black wolf, a mature adult, twice as long as Scarlett was tall.

The amber ______ were fixed upon her.

Scarlett’s hand moved slowly towards her ______.

The wolf ambled towards the ______, following the scent of the bodies.

Scarlett took a ______ from a pocket and ran it through the worst knots in her hair.

She located a piece of ______, tightened the straps on her rucksack, adjusted the hang of her gun-belt, and set off towards the distant town.

The ground was ______, its long grass spattered with black clumps of earth ripped up by the coach’s slide.

She could hear the boy ______ and puffing behind her.

The boy was talking again – probably offering up more pointless ______ – completely insensible of the on-rushing, swing-bellied death that shook the ground behind him.

She knew it as she collided with the boy, one arm thrusting him ______, the other reaching for her belt...

The bear slammed into her, and the impact and the pain and the onset of the teeth and claws and ______, foul breath only proved that she’d been right.

What a ______ snarling it made!

The hairy sides ______; the bear lay still and sprawling on the sunlit ground.

Black paw pads with dirtily translucent claws were ______ out at the corners, like the carved leg supports on Doctor Calloway’s desk in her office at Stonemoor.

The girl ran her hand back through her ______ of hair and gazed at him.

She shook her head ______, though whether at herself or him, he couldn’t tell.

She rummaged in her coat, took out a ______, and inserted it in the dirty leather box hanging from her neck.

She folded her arms, stared off into ______, then back at him.

If you drag behind, or get your ______ caught on a thorn-bush – well, tough luck, baby: I’ll leave you without a goodbye glance.

We cross the Wilds, get to a ______ – finito, that’s when we part ways.

She settled her pack comfortably in the ______ of her back and jerked a serene thumb in the direction of the hill.

The soft earth of the trail was dotted with ______ marks that had been made by running claws.

Scarlett was used to ______ corners.

The ______ chase across the Wilds...

The dogs sniffed here and there. Someone ______.

Scarlett took her compass from her ______ and was considering the ruins and the surrounding knotweed, trying to recall the layout of the eastern Wolds.

The ______ of ancient concrete bridges rose among the trees.

The boy was talking again – probably offering up more pointless observations – completely insensible of the on-rushing, swing-bellied death that shook the ground behind him. She knew it as she collided with the boy, one arm thrusting him ______, the other reaching for her belt...

From what she could recall, it was mainly forests and ______.

Scarlett knew it would not do to be caught in the ______ after dark.

The forest around was ______.

She kept a lookout as they went, and did her best to ignore the ______ scuttling behind her.

The ______ might be on too, with entertainments to be had.

The trail had been climbing for some time. At last it broke free of the trees and they found themselves on the top of a ______.

Far away, a cluster of pale electric lights marked the location of a ______ where the generator had already been switched on for evening.

Scarlett felt a great wave of ______ wash up from the landscape.

At her side the boy shivered, though the afternoon’s late ______ still shone on the waving grasses.

Scarlett McCain woke up beside four ______ men.

She tipped her ______ from its tube and unrolled it on the ground.

She glared down at the nearest ______.

The traps were ______, the noose strings bitten through.

Scarlett McCain swore feelingly in the direction of the ______.

She brewed ______ over the remains of the night’s fire.

The hilltops of the Wolds were picked out in ______ yellow.

She rolled up her ______ and slotted her prayer mat in its tube.