Stavanger Bay all the stars in the sky

How many did he think that Aesop had seen? Oh, boy, Charon couldn't even begin to count those. He was, like, super old! "Uhmmmmm... A thousand billion and three?" Charon said with a super serious expression on his face. Anything beyond his own age was super old, and he had little comprehension about age just yet, as he hadn't given it much thought.

"Yeah, it does," Charon agreed about Drake. "He's a lot warmer to crawl up to at night, too, now that he's got fur." Drake used to be all stony and cold, no doubt (for they'd only become friends after Drake had become hairy).

Then the subject turned to a slightly sadder one. Charon didn't really remember what his mother was like, but he knew that normal pups still had a mother and father, and he did not. Maybe subconsciously, part of him just liked the attention he was given when he told others about his dead mother, and part of him actually missed something that he had never even had.

Aesop asked to hear the story, so Charon drew a breath while he looked up at the Julooke-star. "Well, Julooke was a white wolf who was super pretty and really awesome. She was also super brave. She was an honory shield maiden, which is like a viking thing, and it was honorary because she wasn't really a viking herself but they made her a shield maiden anyway because she and her viking friend were really good friends, I think. Anyway, that part of the story doesn't really matter. So Julooke the white wolf one day decided to retire from her adventures of awesome. She liked the watch the stars a lot so she decided to settle down with another wolf who was pretty awesome and he had more grey-like fur, and his name was Verrine, and he was really awesome too so they really deserved each other."

Charon looked to see if Aesop was still following, even though his story was super-coherent, before continuing, "So anyway, after becoming a mum and settling down with her mate, Julooke one day saw that a bear was trying to kill her puppies. Even though the bear was, like, twenty times bigger than Julooke, she attacked it to save her puppies. And a miracle happened! Even though she was so small compared to the giant mean bear, the bear was losing! How could it be! It must be because Julooke was super duper epic, 'cause 'cause how else could it be?" Charon spoke in excited tones, trying to keep the story alive and his audience captivated.

"So the bear didn't want to lose the fight so he decided to think of a trick, that mean old bear! The bear pretended to surrender and rolled on his back, and when Julooke came closer to help the bear up and call the truce, suddenly [size=9]BAM[/size]!" Charon shouted the 'bam' loudly and gasped in suspense. "With one giant smash, the bear crumbled poor heroic Julooke's skull apart and she was no more." Well, he wasn't sure if it had gone exactly like that, but Charon imagined it had; the bear could only have won by cheating, of course.

"And she was never seen again, only up here in the sky, with the other stars." Suddenly feeling sad talking about his dead mother, Charon looked up at Aesop with watery eyes and said, "Poor Julooke..." Although what he really meant was 'poor Charon'.