Moonspear beldame

She could not help it, she laughed, low and rich.

If she catches the flies, we will have no disputes! Already the enterprising creature had caught a few, she was sure, but Tullik’s soft demands to leave surely interrupted that task.

The mention of children brought her up short, and she turned a mischievous eye to her husband, mouth ticking with a concealed smile.

Do you wish for many pups, Chakliux? We would need many hands for a large litter. An entire village would be troubled by a herd of stampeding babies, but this land was softer than the one she knew. Perhaps if she bore many, she would see them to adulthood in a way her mother had not.