Moonspear from a black widow's reckoning, your fortuitous spine

For now, in light of Lyra's report, his troubles were forgotten. The news of the fox came as a surprise to Osiris, and promptly he shook his head in reply. "I might have," he replied then, recalling the weird-looking coyote that he and Atlas had hunted. "They kind of look like coyotes, right? Atlas and I found a red one in the glen some time ago—but I'm starting to think it might have been a fox and not a coyote." He had learned many things since then, and now questioned their judgement that day; had he hunted a fox?