Twelve billion light years from the edge

When Pump had accepted Aine in the pack, the she-wolf had boasted of many great qualities, but during her time her hadn't proved any. At least not of what the wolf-dog would have any knowledge about. Therefore she was a little skeptical, when Julooke listed all of the fields she was either interested in or was good at. The only difference, however, was that she seemed sincerely interested and motivated to learn everything that was needed to be excellent.

"Thistle will need an assistant, because cubs will take a lot of her time," she commented, recalling that their current healer had expressed a wish to have someone take over, while she could not. "I will need all good hunters we have soon - we will have a deer hunt," Pump explained and the way she said it, implied that she expected to see Julooke in the hunting party. "Where do you come from, Julooke?"