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Wailing, incessant wailing. Carran tried not to be irritated, but Deign had a few spring litters to deal with and nearly all of them were sick. The spring had been wet and rainy, not good for tiny babies, but he’d been out training the night before and wanted nothing more than to sleep. “Carran, I need your help,” Deign said. He pulled himself up and helped her make sure the pups were cared for. “Where’s Akela?” Carran asked as a pup wiped its snot on his foreleg. “She’s trying to gather supplies in this godforsaken rain,” Deign muttered, trying to get the mewling pup to swallow an herb packet. “It gross,” it squeaked. “I know, but in order to get big and strong you have to eat it. Look at Carran, he’s a fine young apprentice and he takes his medicine.” The pup looked over at Carran. “I wanna be an appwentice.” “Then you have to take the medicine,” Deign said gently. She managed to get the pups to chew the herbs and their coughing and mewling stopped for the time being.

Eli had just gotten in from a morning ride with Nero when Beltane met her in the stables. He was leading both Archie and Riley looking harried. “I need your help,” he said. “You need more than my help,” she told him. “Serious mode, please, Ragnar has food poisoning thanks to that janky sushi joint he likes. He was going to help me get these two to the SREA arena in Port Angeles for their Breeding Certs.” “Why can’t they come here, they’ve always come to us?” She asked. “Because the traveling vets are all out at the moment, so they booked us there. I trust you more than everyone else, so can you please help me?” Eli stood there looking at him with a slight scowl. He normally wasn’t one to say please so many times. And then there was Riley and Archie looking like sweet little angels begging her to agree. “I’ll get the truck,” she said. “Thank you! And don’t forget a change of clothes,” he said. “No, I was thinking about going in my shit clothes,” she mumbled and walked