Sun Mote Copse Not your Barbie girl, I'm living in my own world

Phox shared his insight from his own time leading, but when he finished, Alyx offered a self-assured shake of her head. Maybe no one listens to you, but they'll listen to me, she said with finality.

How exactly did she plan to make them stay? That was easy! Either they would stay because she was just that cool and compelling, or she would seduce them with her drop dead looks. She wasn't much to look at yet with her gangling limbs and her oversized paws and ears, but if Niamh was anything to go by, then she would be stunning one day. If that didn't work, there were always threats. She wasn't sure how she could physically force someone to stay, but she was crafty enough to figure something out.

Where's the grove? Why'd you leave? she wondered next, peering at her father as she realized, probably for the first time, that he (and many other wolves she loved) had had a life before her.