If you grew any slower, you’d be going backwards and shrinking instead of getting bigger.

[Still, he had noticed the young wolf had been growing, getting more muscular in the chest and shoulder area; and finally growing more into those long legs of his so he no longer looked like he was standing on four stilts.]

If your goal in life is to get as big as that porker, you’re going to need to start eating six or seven meals a day.

[A fat wolf meant one of two things: either one was a good enough hunter to keep finding lots of prey or had a big appetite that someone else was feeding.

He was taken aback at first when Toboe offered him a bite. Then he smiled. The runt had such a soft heart sometimes and Tsume couldn’t help but find it a little endearing.]

Okay.

[He took a few bites from their now-shared meal.]