The Sentinels Into the light

He enjoyed her childhood theory immensely, and the look it gave him at how creative she'd been even then.  He too had dug in the earth as a child, but merely to see how far he could go.  He'd never imagined anything beneath but more earth.

"Pete, huh?  Where'd you meet him?"  The idea of an old friend, and one who was so well traveled, interested him.  Had he belonged to her pack before, or was he a fellow traveler with whom she'd crossed paths?

"It must be a sight to see, then, that other land.  Wonder how different it would be."  He inhaled a breath, enjoying the taste of the salt on his tongue.  "Any wolf who went there would have to be quite the swimmer.  Maybe the ones over there even dwell in the sea."  There were tales of sirens - maybe that's how a siren was born.