Blackfeather Woods and late in a star's life -- it begins to explode

"Yes." Euron answered, but as the wolf started to move into the buffer he had set between them, he took a couple paces back to preserve it. "You can stay there and show me." Tension gathered in his limbs. It was like the day on the borders. His mind worked to find some way to deflect the wolf's focus from him (Euron was obviously not a wolf for the spotlight; he was a backstage agent that lurked behind the curtains and moved in the shadows, that was uneasy when so much attention was on him).

"There," he said, gesturing with a paw toward a skull-sized stump, "try that." But in case that would not do, the boy presented another suggestion.

"Or we can go to the borders and find another head."