He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

She just dropped it and ran!!

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.