Shadewood Smoky blues

Apple's life-long experience with children had desensitized her from such concept as "private space". This had stopped to exist, the moment her first litter had been born. It took a year to raise a proper wolf being out of a total brick. Sometimes you needed longer and there were individual cases, where learning manners was a life-long struggle. Therefore she was not put off from the girl's exuberant approach as much as she simply felt surprised by her sudden appearance.

"Ain't you a sunshine," she said and patiently let the other have a sniff for half-a-minute and then took some resolute steps back, showing that she had had enough of it. "Seven dwarves and a poisoned apple. This looked like a perfect place to find them. What about you?" she asked.