Big Salmon Lake Is this the prize I've waited for

At the strange wolf's urging, she paused and looked back at him. Relief washed over her at the fact that he actually was aware that he hadn't been chasing a turnip. "Thank goodness," she said with a sigh of relief, "I thought you were a lunatic." His admission meant that he wasn't completely insane--only rather unusual. Fin could deal with unusual. The insane were just too much to bother with.

Now that she wasn't completely freaked out by him, she actually felt a little sorry for the wolf. His face was caked with dirt with two bright eyes peeking out at her with sullen hope. She frowned slightly, still rather wanting to be on her way, but he was too pathetic to just leave hanging. "Well," she started, "Usually you want to kill them before they reach their holes." And this is why Fin never went for the Counselor trade.