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"You'll be fine," Peregrine answered, sounding perhaps slightly dismissive. He knew about the pup's, er, neurotic tendencies—he was his nephew, after all—but with Elwood, Finley, Fox and himself as role models, the Alpha didn't doubt Eljay would grow into himself, discover his strengths and use them to establish himself as a contributing member of their small society.

"Hey, who knows—maybe you'll end up being the sitter type," the Alpha said lightly. He would definitely get a lot of opportunity to learn about rearing pups in the near future. "In the meantime, you gonna eat any of that? If not, I'm going to cache it." Peregrine paused, glancing at the rendered carcass. "Or you could." He still had hopes that the boy would take up hunting (which included caching).