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She had heard the call on the second day of the gypsy gathering, a second day celebrating springtime and another year alive for those who had survived it. It seemed there had been a great many deaths - and it was only right to celebrate not being one of those who had fallen. Truly, though, why would anyone need a reason at all not to revel in the joy that the gypsies seemed to be imbued with? She certainly needed none, caught out here in Mecor with dancing steps and legs while others had slept in from festivities that had gone on well into the morning.

That is when she hears, follows, and finds the gathering of strange folk - a council of sorts with a topic of debate seeming to swallow a poor child whole. It is such a weighty thing, considering the child is weakened looking and the reason being that the father had removed it so young from the mother. She tilts her head and listens to the words of the others. The dark colored wolf, a sore thumb that was handsome if he was a little strange, spoke much and with thoughts as though he too agreed that there was nothing to be done now.

�I cannot see how it might be wrong or right, as our dark fellow-- Lonhro?-- here says.� She lays down, myriad of grays laid on the earth before the child. �It simply �is�, now. The right or wrong of it is also seemingly what the white woman says. Wrong to one may not be so to another. And I agree, it comes down to asking yourself if you might make the child happy.� She tilts her head, nosing closer to the child with her head against the dirt, curious. �The people from whom I come before I came to the Mountains used to magpie pups if we believed a mother too weak or jaybird pups if we believed others might give them a better life. Packs also elf-nabbed pups from loners and each other in order to be assured genes did not backtrack onto themselves� We also did such things if we were sure that their parentage would draw ire of others upon them. It was not a tame place and children were prone to becoming martyrs for their parents choices if they were not careful.�

A lot to say, but at least she had offered some situations in which others had performed much the same act as he had himself performed recently. �And in these instances, it was not common to even be given a trade for the loss. I believe you offered penance, though can one put a price on a child?� It is a valid question that seems more like a curiosity rather than an accusation.

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