Duck Lake The Better to Hear with, My Dear

 Casimir sounded like another fancy name; she noted dully. She had not met a wolf yet who carried the same kind of simple name she did, and she wondered if names were yet another difference between dogs and wolves. She did not dwell on this long, however, and his question had her consider a moment all the time she'd been and spent in Easthollow. "a few weeks - and there're lots. Valette's the alpha, and she's friendly but also a little scary, sometimes. And Nanook's the beta, " Here was a term she'd learned recently, from Murdock, one she'd come to learn meant the second leader. She was stopped only from going through a list of every pack member by the realization that it might bore him, and lapsed into happy silence.