Jade Fern Grove Arise, Riders of Theoden!

she felt like she might rip at the seems, and so sat with a sigh of defeat. her brain felt unbearably slow, for the realization of what this thing was, exactly, came sluggishly. "you're a dog?" came her next question, remembering Poppy. she'd been strange, but possessed most of the mental capacity of a wolf and looked somewhat like them - this one, on the other hand, looked entirely weird. perhaps a birth defect, but he carried that same soft scent, and a different one, overlayed and entirely foreign.