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"it can be many months, but listen. ve need only to vait until this storm goes avay," mahler explained. "i vill teach you how to hunt in the snow." it was a useful skill, and something fatherly in the gargoyle was pleased with the boy's enthusiasm.
it had been a long time since mahler had seen howl, and though he did not think ill of the man, he felt that the kaistleoki wolf had become a stranger to a boy who was in mahler's estimation a promising child. kind, intelligent, questioning. a credit to star, to himself, and to rivenwood.