Wild Berry Meadow line them up on a stage, see which ones are clever and which ones declined with age

She asked how he knew which ones would kill him and which ones wouldn't, and it took him a long moment before he realized she was talking about the berries and not wolves. Draper chuckled, amused at his own misinterpretation of what she had said, but he mostly managed to keep it together.

The bad ones usually don't kill you, he said, They just leave you hurtin' for a few days.

And hey, that applied to wolves, too. How the heck was he being so philosophical right now?

Name's Draper Featherwind.

He thought of Sleepy then, wondering if this particular wolf might be able to help him attain the information he was looking for. Unfortunately, he had gotten some of the details wrong.

You wouldn't happen to know a Kurtmock, would you? Or maybe a Ratska? Friend of mine says they used to live on the coast, but they aren't there anymore.