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When Sunny and Dawn were both (seeming to be) paying attention, Grayday took a deep breath and gathered his thoughts.

"Rule number one," he said, looking between his two little monsters, "both of you must always be within leaping distance, unless I tell you it's okay to wander. And even then, you have to stay close enough that I could reach you quickly, if something were to happen.

"Rule number two - if you see a stranger, tell me at once, and then stay back and behind me until I tell you it's alright." He didn't expand on this one, as he knew both his children now had a healthy wariness of strange wolves.

"Rule number three - take care of each other. No matter what happens, we must stay together. If you lose track of me, you must stick with each other, and stay where I can find you. Your dad has a good nose, and if you don't wander far, I'll be able to find you," he assured them, giving them each a lick on the cheek. "If you practice hard, you two might make good trackers one day, too. We'll be doing a lot of hunting on our trip, so I'm sure you'll have plenty of opporutnities to find out."