#baronyofthesilverwolf

Hyarmentir knows she's been picked, and she's pleased. She liked the new troll who visited. She smelled of fields and earth, and a slight scent of milk that wasn't like mother's but was nice. She will miss her family when the time comes, but she will have a new family, a family of people. It made her proud, and she perked up. "I'm a good girl"

Ered Engrin looks up, his goatee showing on his muzzle "How come you're a good girl but I ain't a good boy?"

"Well, for starters," Hyarmentir cocked her head, "You knocked over the water bowl, and you barked at the lop eared person"

"I got thirsty," Ered Engrin protests, "Super duper thirsty, and mom got us all weaned so water it is. And.. I LIKE the the lop earred person. She has soft ears that flop neat in the wind, and she jumps if I bark just right. What makes YOU so good?"

"I got picked" She says and wags "I'm gonna go to the farm"

Ered Engrin says "Oh! uh.. you sure that's what you want?" Her brother lowers his tail, in a concerned fashion, "I hear 'gone to a farm' is just people talk for.. neeeever seen again."

Hyarmentir's tail stops wagging "What do you mean? They're seen, they're seen at the farm. Right?"

"Don' know" Ered Engrin replies cautiously, and conspiratorially "But... mostly it's old dogs, sick dogs, or bad dogs that 'go to a farm', and you don't look old, and you don't seem sick"

Hyarmentir gives a soft whimper.

Then she hurfs and growl at her brother "Well, I'm not BAD."

"Don't blame me" he says "Just what I heard" then, distracted, he chases after a never!

Eren Luin looks over "I think we're ALL good dogs" no goatee on this one

Hyarmentir feels better, and wags juuuuust a bit "Thank you" and yet, she still worries, or at least wonders. She must talk to the woman who is to be her person again.

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Celebdil's father has left, and she is not with him. More than that, the nice lady who she sniffed at first, who liked her even before she touched noses with father, left as well. Mother she asks Is this what it feels like to find out there are people who want you , but not be with them? It is a sad feeling. Like the moon is clouded over before you can get a really good howl in.

But her mother appears to be asleep, so the little girl makes her way towards the edge of their space, and looks up. Only to hear one of her siblings is already howling at the moon. And she realizes she at least got picked. Even if it means waiting. Blaze, Ered Lomin didn't, despite coming close. And while he is happy for his two sisters that did get picked, he laments.

And his howl is a song:

"I have often dreamed, of a warm fire place
Where a proper pet's welcome, would be waiting for me
Where the folks will laugh, when I lick their face
And a voice keeps saying, "This is where you're meant to be"

I'll be there someday, I can go the distance
I will sit and stay, I won't do orders wrong
I know every mile, will be worth my while
If I only show obedience, I'll be right where I belong

Down an unknown road, to embrace my fate
Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you
And a thousand years.. uhm seven thousand years, would be worth the wait
It might take a lifetime, but somehow I'll see it through

And I won't look back, I can go the distance
I'll learn to track, no, I won't accept defeat
It's an uphill slope, but I won't lose hope
Till I go the distance, and my training is complete

But to look beyond the fun is the hardest part
For a Fae Hound's strength is measured by his heart

Like a real strong scent, I will go the distance
I will protect my folk, I will guard my peoplels from all harms
I don't care how far, I can go the distance
Till I find a proper Pet welcome, cuddling in your arms

I will stay the course, I will stop the harms!
Till I find my family dog welcome, cuddling in your arms!"

Of course, what others here is "Aooowwwwwwoooo"

and some of the other puppies maybe moved to join in the song, because it speaks to them all

Until mom growls at them to shhush

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