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If nothing else, the Court was flooded with hybrid vigour. Caspa wasn't even certain that the King was pure dog, considering his size, but then some dogs were pretty big. She herself wasn't tiny, just spare. She was high enough to easily hold the back of the swing in her jaw, and back up a little before releasing. It was more pulling than pushing, but she favoured the strength in her jaws more than the push in her shoulders. It swung but gently, with an elderly dignity befitting quite an antique construction. She backed up further for the next swing, wary of rocking him to sleep. She didn't anticipate carrying a fast-asleep Princeling all the way to his village home. Nor did she really know the way. It didn't sound like it would come to this anyway - Skoll was claiming to be big, which he wasn't, and old enough to stay up this late, which Caspa wouldn't know, but at least he was probably past the stage of passing out and being impossible to wake.
She nipped playfully at his tail as he swung back towards her, instead of pushing. "Anything real is better than something that doesn't exist. Stories are only good when they make you think about real things in another way." Like the sun-chasing wolf who Skoll's name was inherited from. Caspa understood that that story had been made by humans, but wolves had always been important to the humans, it seemed, even before they began to shift and understand things like reading. That story had been for an older type of human, and to her recall, a rather brutal lot. It wasn't a good mythology, because it hadn't taught them how to live in peace. Nothing had, until it was too late. "Do you think fairies would tell each other wolf stories, if they existed?"
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