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Angel eyed the pack leader more keenly, at this. She assumed that it must be Ajei's job to ring in the spring in this way, and her tail wheeled in preemptive excitement.

"I sure hope so," she said, her tone partially coy but mostly quite earnest. She was just getting to an age where childrearing was beginning to interest her. She hoped she might be able to get a look at someone else's pups before it came time to make decisions about such things herself.

She wondered — would her father be home in time to rear more pups with her mother?

"I should go see my own mother," she said with a smile, feeling even more urgently the need to be reunited. She waited, however, for Ajei to dismiss her before taking her leave.