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Then they were staring at each other. Caro blinked at the exclamation, and somewhat timidly, confirmed: "Yes." Everyone said so, after all. She was growing all the time, growing like a weed, growing so big and so strong. Her tail wagged.

She took a little step forward.

"Where are you all the time?" she asked, guileless, now blind and deaf to all other family dramas. Treepie looked like her father and her brother, only more lady-like, and as a sister, she was the first of her kind. This was all very important to Carolina, who was just recently coming to appreciate things like role models and What Happens Outside The Territory??

Treepie's scent fascinated her, too. So many strange wolves, so many strange places! She was fully gawking, now, beginning to look just a little starry-eyed.