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“What exactly is a Bewilderbeast?”
The sun sank behind the mountains and the air became crisp and cool. Zeb and Flip were both quietly terrified at the thought of sleeping outside. They each did their best impression of a very brave person, but it didn’t work as well as they would have hoped.
“It’s getting dark,” Flip said, rather unnecessarily.
“Yeah. And cold,” said Zeb, just as superfluously.
“Do you think there are wolves or anything in these mountains?”
“I think that, if there are, then there are. But thinking about them probably definitely certainly isn’t going to help us.”
“Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Wolves are scary. Best not to think of scary things. I wonder what wolves are scared of? Do you think anything lives in these woods that scares wolves? Like, do the wolfmums gathe
