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The other wolf was a woman, around his age, pretty.

Aquillius felt his throat click when he swallowed, but only used his ear to follow her from his blind side. His eye sought her out when she came into range, before it returned to the flash of scales beneath the murk.

He could even see the roll of larger fish further from the shore, but he had to catch something smaller first, just to prove that he could, before he thought to wrestle with a large fish.

He eventually put his front legs in the water, appearing like an odd stork with the water lapping at his ankles, entirely focused on the scales.