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As Svalinn continued to wrestle with the beaver, another pup joined the effort. Elwood couldn't remember the girl's name, but he watched all the same as the two youths employed different strategies to try to bring down their prey. While the female cub took the beaver's wide, flat tail in her mouth and began to tug on it, Svalinn continued to straddle its body and eventually began to inflict some damage with his teeth.

This, of course, greatly irritated the beaver, and it swiped at him with its claws. Predictably, Svalinn released it with a cry. Elwood refrained from intervening; instead, he mentally rooted for the two children to rally and keep trying. Were he coaching his own offspring, he might have offered a word of encouragement -- but he would follow Caiaphas' lead in this situation.