Serializations of the Hitherby Dragons novels

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Edmund works his thoughts around a proposal. He chews it, shapes it, refines it with the teeth of his mind. Then he spits it out:

“You could get free,” he tells the wolf, “and then not eat the world.”

It looks at him.

“And what would you have me do, then?” it asks.

“We could be business partners!”

Edmund seizes the paw of the wolf in his two arms’ spread. He hugs it and does not mind the swords that are its claws.

“I could be the money and you could be the . . . wolf! And we could call it ‘Edmund & Wolf Enterprises.’”

“Is there a market for that?” the wolf asks him, amused.

“There could be,” says Edmund. “The world is bursting with untapped demand for giant wolves not eating them.”

“That’s extortion,” says the wolf.

Its tone suggests that it disapproves.

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