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Slowly, he came to, jostled by movement and groaning in the dull roar of his pain. He, too, had learned a lesson this day: that his undercarriage was sensitive and was something to be protected from such strikes, though this would not stop him from wrestling his siblings in the future.

Letting Solpallur drag Valmua away now, the gold and cream wolf lifted his leg and curled around to soothe his pain with long and sure strokes of his stung, also ensuring that he wasn't, in fact, bleeding, even if he felt like he should have been.