Ouroboros Spine an echo of an echo

She did not wander long before a curious youth found her. Easy barked back, her tail wheeling as the young one approached. Without really knowing what she looked like, Easy thought that the white-splashed coat of the youth matched rather nicely with the silver-splotched coat that adorned her own body. The likeness, however, was one she knew to be coincidence rather than blood. Valiant had confirmed that (other than Ludo) there were no new children of their line for her to meet.

"Hello," she replied, her voice still warm. This pack was a kind of family to her own, and this was a child of that family. "My name is Easy. What's yours?" she asked the girl.

She lowered herself to her belly in the brittle grass, encouraging the child closer.