Blacktail Deer Plateau these impressionable youths

Pura did not leap at Blue in a flurry of mad yelps today, but looked up from his horticultural pursuits with a dazed, puzzled expression. The girls had tired him out with their frequent outbursts and he was in a rarely glimpsed state of calm.

"Whaa..-tuh do?" he asked when she was near enough to hear, looking up at the big, black wolf with a gently quizzical expression. He wanted adult time - alone, and Willow was just the wolf. "Uh-sploooore?" the pup enunciated carefully, looking beyond their invisible pen and back again. He struggled to to speak fluidly, and said as little as possible to avoid the inevitable frustration of being bested by the girls in that category.