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“Have Helissent bring me the child,” offers Fenris.

“Then you will eat her,” says Mr. Gulley. “And say, ‘Mr. Gulley! What an abominable circumstance! Do come a foot or two closer so that you can rescue your orphaned child.’”

“And then eat you?”

“So I imagine.”

“The banquet is impractical,” sulks Fenris. “A baby cannot survive in this fast-paced era with only a gigantic chained wolf to mother it.”

Mr. Gulley almost says something. Then he almost says a different thing. Then, very thoughtfully, he agrees, “Point.”

On this reasoning he sends Helissent away on a vacation and he carries the baby downstairs with him and he introduces him to the wolf.

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