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The chain is soft and silken and it seems like it ought to tear with the littlest pressure but it binds the wolf utterly instead; holds its mouth too tightly to admit a human, svart, or cow; wraps around its limbs: it cannot slip free of it. In the years to come that slender wrap will dig pustulent furrows into the flesh of the growing wolf, it will twist the heart to look at them, but it will also keep the creature hobbled, bind it and its hunger, keep it from gulping down whole villages, cities, countries, or later worlds.

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