Jane vacuums the floor in dismal dolor. She makes herself breakfasts. She eats more sugary cereal than Martin would ever let her eat but after a while it palls and melts into a mass of sugary color in the milk. She droops, and her face falls, and she gets milk and cereal all over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are not<\/i> a substitute,\u201d she says to Skoll, who eats two glowflies and an accidental moth.<\/p>\n
Now and then Skoll sneaks out of the house. He sniffs the air. He is looking for Fenris, who used to be part of the same eolith. However his sense of smell is way too attuned to smelling sunlight and he cannot track his way to Edmund Gulley and his wolf.<\/p>\n
That is why Skoll stays and raises Jane, or, possibly, the other way around.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to study geometry with me,\u201d declares Jane. This thing they do, but they do not do it well.<\/p>\n
The sun-eating wolf perverts her notions.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, if anything, Jane is even less confident of her Euclidian geometry than before.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly,\u201d she says, \u201cYou\u2019d think you were a hound of Tindalos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skoll yips, shrugs in a wolfish fashion, and wanders off to lick himself in a fashion we will not otherwise discuss.<\/p>\n
Agency spies watch this from afar. They use spyglasses. They become concerned.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t that . . . ?\u201d one agent asks another.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is!\u201d<\/p>\n
That is a wolf that is going to eat the sun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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