Serializations of the Hitherby Dragons novels

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“I’m here to check on your wolf,” Joffun says. It’s too quiet for Mr. Gulley to make it out. He says it louder. “I’m here to check on your wolf.”

“What?”

“Hans says it’s my job, now,” Joffun says. “Keep it bound. Keep it safe. See if any of the bits of tether are fraying and replace them. You and me, we’re stuck together now, bucko. But your sky is too high and your sun-bird is too bright and you have grass everywhere and I don’t like your stupid face.”

“It can —”

Mr. Gulley hesitates. “You can fix it?”

“It won’t last forever,” says Joffun bleakly. “The wolf’ll get loose one day and doubtless it’ll eat the world. But yeah. I can fix it.”

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