The Sunspire I will never leave my bedroom

"I believe you won't," Wraen replied, hoping that Breccan took after his father, who was more down-to-earth and pragmatic than Liffey. It might be so that she was not doing the alphess justice, it had been a while now since they had had a heart-to-heart chat together, and there was no way of knowing, whether childbirth and raising a litter of four had changed the young mother entirely. 

"While you are chewing, I could tell you a story about the Deer King," she said, getting comfortable. She did not have to rush anywhere for a change. "The story goes like this... it happened around the time, when my grandmother was alive..." she went on telling, how her pack had cornered the deer of all deer once and what had come out of it. A story with a grain of truth, more grains of imagination and lore, mixed up with a useful life lesson.