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Finley answered her succinctly, explaining the purpose of a rib cage and giving her niece a little tickle along hers. Wildfire squealed and leaped to the aside to avoid her aunt's nose, all the while insisting, "Nuh uh!" Surely she didn't have one of these things inside her. That was crazy talk! Although the more she thought about it, then recollected the way Finley's nose had bumped from rib to rib, the more Wildfire began to realize the truth of it. Besides, Aunt Finley wouldn't lie to her.

Once the pup accepted it as truth, she blinked up at the Beta female with wide amber eyes, a bit bewildered by this new knowledge. "I has bones in me too?" she queried. It all seemed so strange to her, which was probably evident by the look on her face. "An' a heart?" She had seen (and eaten) a few of those, a thought which made her little nose wrinkle in disgusted fascination.