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Liam was excited to tell little Eli all about reading! His tail wagged in anticipation as he mentally prepared his words, bi-colored eyes glancing at Ezra quickly before falling onto the young pup once more. What was reading? “Well – reading is... Sometimes you will see funny looking markings on different surfaces like...” he drifted off, trying to find a sign or a stray piece of paper or anything at all that had writing on it. When he found none, he just shrugged. “Sometimes wolves can read those markings. It's called reading. It's like a treasure hunt! You try to figure out the markings and then you end up with an exciting treasure!” he said. Using the treasure analogy was the easiest way for him to convey what he wanted to say so that it was easy for a pup to understand.
“You can also read stories – the markings on the pages tell a story and you can make up pictures in your mind of what happens...” he said, but Liam could tell Eli probably wouldn't be interested in reading. Not now, considering he still could barely form coherent sentences. Maybe when he was a tad older – a month or two, maybe three. It was a shame though, Liam absolutely loved reading! Just sitting with a good book and watching as the words unraveled into an interesting story about knights and warriors and pirates and... other great things! But Eli was too young, so the brown-pelted boy started pacing around the little wolf pup as he thought of different games they could play. He remembered the game he'd played with his patchwork best friend a couple weeks ago. Vampires pirates! “Do you know how to play pretend!?” Liam asked excitedly. “It's just like reading – only we're making up the story this time!” he said.
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