“And yet, there are stories of wolves raising human children,” Ash replied. “What’s to stop them from raising a horse?”
“...nothing, I suppose,” Alice whispered barely audibly. She was shy around new people, no matter if they were human or not.
“Right? I saved Guido when he was a foal and asked a pack of wolves to raise him as their own.”
“You can talk to animals?” Mary asked in surprise.
“I can,” Ash mumbled and lowered his gaze, realizing that he had said a bit too much. “I know a couple of Words, but that’s it.”
“It may come in handy,” she said thoughtfully.
According to legends, mages could talk to just about everything that existed in this universe if, of course, they knew the right Word. However, in reality, rare were those who went beyond learning how to communicate with
