Sun Mote Copse My mood's shifting to manic places

She worked the meat and bones back to her molars and crunched them idly while slipping into her thoughts, at least until Eljay appeared and complimented her catch. She pinned the now headless carcass between her ankles and swallowed ungracefully.

Great. Weird Uncle Eljay.

Okay, so that was a bit of an unfair thing to think. She’d never really spent a lot of time with the guy. He just always seemed so sad and far away. Every family had a weirdo and Eljay was simply That Relative. He was also probably the most devoted and loyal wolf in the whole entire world, but it was just eclipsed by how weird he was. At least, to her it did. Weejay, too, but at least Alyx didn’t get the sense that Weejay was clinically depressed all the time while also a seriously good doctor. You'd think a doctor would have better mental health.

Uh, thanks! she squeaked. Then, because he was Weird Uncle Eljay and kept to himself a lot and she didn’t think he was very close with her parents, either, she blurted, can I tell you a secret?