Ankyra Sound Sweet dreams are made of this

I've decided that Chusi is the wolf-equivalent of Lyra Belacqua. I was trying to ping my mind and remember who she reminded me of! Love it :)

Ingram expected his wit to hit her like the trusted end of an arrow -- but instead, it flew right over her head. He pulled his long ears back and scowled deeply at her. It was an expression that welted his features and lent him the most unbecoming of expressions.

His churlish grimace lifted when she mentioned the word 'friend'. Ingram had never had friends - unless you counted Muses, who was more of a traveling companion.. and while he sort of liked her, he viewed her more like an aunt or maybe an older sister. Lycaon and Wylla were siblings, not friends, and had always made sure to remind him of the cruel capital being siblings entailed.. and well.. there wasn't really anyone else.

He shifted and rolled his shoulders. "Forget it," He sighed, deciding her moral integrity was too thickly shielded to be impugned by his high wit. In the same way Chusi might have viewed Ingram as a lost cause, he viewed rebuking her incessant stream of questions as sort of a vain undertaking, or some war of attrition he would not win.