Bonesplinter Ravine ScoobyNatural

"Super-what? Can you repeat that?" Wraen asked after Epic had managed to squeeze out the longest and most complicated adjective she had ever heard. "Don't  you worry about me, my pride won't let that happen," she added and found it endearing that he had said such a nice thing. Hearing that you were amazing from your relatives was one thing, but a praise from a stranger - entirely different.

"Well, one afternoon Echo entertained the chief god's chief wife Hera with her stories. She was very fond of them. Only later did she find out that her husband had bribed the nymph to keep his wife entertained, while he... well, to put it simply was banging another chick," Wraen told. "Hera was of a prideful and unforgiving nature and, while she could not punish her husband, she put a curse on Echo - she could only repeat the words of what other people said. Hence the name," she explained and paused, letting this piece of information sink. 

"The story goes on - she fell in love with a very beautiful and conceited man Narzissus and followed him around invisible to him, trying to make her presence known and but being able only to repeat the words he said, which - naturally - made him angry. Finally, frustrated he exclaimed: "Are you here?" And she replied: "Here." Appeared before his eyes happy to behold her lover, but he was disgusted by her and told her off with the rudest words. 

She was so unhappy, that she wasted and withered, until nothing was left of her, but her voice. That's the reason, why you hear echoes," she said the last word louder and paused to listen to the "echoes... echoes... echoes..." bouncing against the ravine's walls and disappearing in the distance. "At least Narzissus got, what had been coming for him, because he managed to piss off another nymph, who in turn cursed him to fall in love with his own reflection in water. And unable to look away from his own beautiful face he likewise wasted and withered and in the end was turned into a flower."

"Moral of the story - don't be a jerk to divinities. And probably do not give everything to a person, who does not know, how to value it," she finished.

Disclaimer: the Greek myths are not mine, but the retelling and wolf adaptation is.