Sleepy Fox Hollow Down the road

venison eaten not so long ago, laid out in a near-straight line upon the ground for the boy. mahler watched him for a long moment. "er kann nicht bleiben," the gargoyle grunted uncomfortably.
were wylla not on the very precipice of birth-giving, he might have considered the boy. but as it were, mahler understood she would want the resources of their pack to go toward its own children.
"ve vill keep him avhile, stabilize him. but i should get up to epoch before long, or vone of us should. i do not know vhere else a boy his age might have gotten avay. ve should start there."