Artemis was surprised to see the animal walking towards her. It was definitely who she had been talking to, but he was not at all what she had expected. She talks to animals all the time back home, but never have they talked back.
What was he? Canine, obviously, but not one she had see before. It looked like a couple of species she had seen but wasn’t quite right.
“Aren’t you a little small for a wolf?” Or maybe he was a big jackal.