Phantom Hollow lamb

it was a great post!

buffalo heard the step behind them, and turned with laughing eyes to behold the wolf who regarded them coldly with eyes the soft colour of dawn. "dear queen!" the man exclaimed, stepping away from byll and bowing lowly before the wolfess. "you ... are a queen, yes?" he purred.


"well, i am buffalo, and this is byll. we are twins, you see, and we come in search of a home." his eyes danced. "i am a hunter, and a fighter, though i prefer to love. but she -- byll is an oracle. she communes with the gods." 

he was an orator now, the master of the three rings he expected to jump through in order to gain entry to this woman's palacial home.