panted excitedly.

            The next morning, the mail dog team started out just like the big dog had said. With the pups running close behind, we followed the team the surprisingly short distance to another town and reached it just as the sun started to set. I looked around and in the distance, I could see a farm.

“That has to be it!” I exclaimed excitedly.

I scooped up Buck in my mouth and broke into a run. My father picked up Balto and followed after me. But he wasn’t going to catch me! I picked up Tundra’s familiar scent and ran faster then I had ever run before. The old, brown barn loomed closer and closer and my heart beat faster and faster. I stopped just short of the barn and dropped Buck in a thicket of grass.

“Stay here and wait for your grandfather, I’ll be right back”

I slowly, very slowly, made my way to the barn, soaking up the feeling of the moment. It seemed all too good to be true, but it was real. I was had just reached the barn door and started to push it open when another cold nose touched mine.

“Aniu?!” came Tundra’s voice.

Tundra, Buck, Ataneq and Sage (c) me

Balto and Aniu (c) Universal