Mount Apikuni It’ll all be alright in the end.

Grezig made a noise in her throat when Elixir went down, sprawling on the ground. “Sorry,” she said. “Perhaps I pushed you too hard.” She watched as the mutt took the same position as before, but noted that her legs were better positioned, that her center of gravity was lower. 

’Do it again?’ Elixir asked.

Grezig grunted and lowered her head, pushing it into Elxir’s shoulder in an attempt to knock her off balance. The wolfdog did not budge this time. Grezig stepped back with a small wag of her tail. “You learn fast,” she commended. “Perhaps we will make a warrior out of you, yet.”