On the trail we blaze
10-05-2020, 09:58 PM
“Nice to meet ya Moo,” the words offered cheerily. He guessed it was a longer name by how she had stalled then repeated it but that was fine by Outlaw. Certainly, his real name wasn’t Outlaw, it just sounded better. Maybe he could help? “You know, my real name isn’t actually Outlaw, but the real one was super boring and didn’t fit me at all. Outlaw sounds great though, doesn’t it? I picked it out for myself.” It sounded like dogs were really rare here, that hadn’t occurred to Outlaw. Did most of the dogs around live on the island? Were they really rare? Outlaw had never seen many wolves so he imagined them to be rarer. Outlaw had both close and extended family on the island which was more than the wolves so he had always imagined things backward. Hmm. “Plenty of dogs on forgotten Island, most of my family. Except cousin Barnek left when I was young for some reason, then my um, relative in some stretched out fashion, they left to go exploring. Dace, our best fisher ever, went to go find new fish to catch.” Of course, she wanted to know these details? “But most of us stayed on the island.” “Ashen empire must have a lot of wolves, at least that sure makes it sound huge.” How many wolves made up an empire? It was a fancy title. Outlaw's tail was swishing back and forth back and forth. “I’d like to visit and see the place someday, you know, if your fam, um, empire allowed it. Are there a lot of families in the empire? How many islands? Are they very big?” In Outlaw's imagination the size of the land the empire held was growing to rather massive proportions. Speech:"Life is but a game " Think
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