Aurora found them in the east garden at midmorning.All three of them: Lena and Cael and Fen, who was four months old and had been brought to the garden by Lily for the specific purpose of beginning the introduction to the outdoor world that Lily considered a developmental priority, and who had been received by Lena and Cael with the absolute commitment of wolves who had decided that whoever this new person was, she was interesting and they intended to find out more.Cael had been watching Fen since she arrived.This was consistent with Cael's established approach to new things, the watching-before-deciding methodology that had been present since his first minutes and that had not changed as he developed. He had spent the first twenty minutes observing Fen with the focused attention of a wolf taking thorough inventory before committing to any position.Then he had sat down next to her carry wrap.Not to do anything. Just to be proximate. Which was, for Cael, the equivalent of a declar
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