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Wildfire found herself wishing Elwood Jr was as quiet and laid-back as before Finley's disappearance, for his own sake as much as anyone else's. He just seemed so easily distraught and the reality was that wolves would come and go in his life. How would he cope? It worried her while tugging at her heart strings, prompting her to bend forward and place a comforting kiss on his brow.

At last, he settled down when his mother mentioned a story. The teenager sort of wanted to slip away to think, yet she knew that would probably go over like a lead balloon right now. Instead, she planted herself firmly beside him and gazed at Aunt Finley, anticipating a likely crazy story. Those were her godmother's trademark.