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Wolf on the importance of Hope in the Village 

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Wolf on the importance of Hope in the Village 

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“Hope was put into Pandora’s Box for a reason, Graham. It’s the worst of the evils, buried at the very bottom. It saps your will to resist. Makes you placid. Content to wait for something to improve in your situation. Even now, in this instance, you simply hoped I’d change my mind. You didn’t do much more than that.”

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“No. I hoped that you would have cause to think. I hoped that you’d have a chance to turn back from this decision.”

“It is in my nature to decline.” Both the Wolf and the Deer seemed to acknowledge that there wasn’t much more to be said.

“And I suppose,” said Graham, “it is in my nature to know that.”

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Why the Wolf breaks the rules of the Village

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Why the Wolf breaks the rules of the Village

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You decry the abuse of this earth and its animals whilst you wear their oppressor’s clothes. You eat alongside the things that want to eat you. You have advanced nothing Graham. This nonsense has to stop.”

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"It’s the principle,” Mr Mouse had said, “it’s the symbol of what we might yet be. By wearing our forbear’s clothes we are a visual reminder that our society, whilst great, can still be greater!”
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Graham had quietly adjusted his friend’s words after Mr Mouse had gone home, adding that it was also a warning for what their society could devolve to. “And additionally,” he said, “I rather feel I cut a fine figure in a good suit.”
How they had laughed!

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"You may be small
But you're beautifully packaged.
- A Big Admirer"

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"It had been his idea that dead trees could be used for accommodation with animals that didn’t want to live outside in the dirt. Everyone had made themselves very comfortable in their trees or, in the case of smaller animals, tree limbs that were lying untouched, and set about the process of preventing rot from setting in."

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Eg I’m thinking that dead trees are used for fires in open spaces but the actual trunks can be converted into dens for the various animals that live in the community?

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So I’m seeing a Wind in the Willowy feel for a village - all animals living together fairly happily, not cutting down trees/damaging the land, but building in and around it. This way I think we’re kind of blending both animal and human cultures nicely - there’s still an environment where multiple races/classes of animal can mix and use their various talents together (when in regular animal world they wouldn’t), but there’s also the way they’d dress, interact, and of course eat (which I think is surely dependent on species, but eating should maybe be full Vegan for everyone?).

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(... I mean he doesn’t have a pack, cubs, or mate, so no wonder he’s chasing down red-hooded children and their grandmothers. Side note: he really doesn’t have to be the classical Big Bad Wolf. We can have any predatory animal you like - I just go with this one bc I think it works - the lone wolf being the most dangerous and all. Plus wolves are cool, come on.)

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Graham is elegant, clever and sleek, which I think really gives the Wolf an appetite, bc he misses the whole point of Graham’s energy being directed towards the future, what the village is being and can continue to be, bc a lone wolf does not really have a future? (I think ...)

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"What’s inside it?" asked the Mole, wriggling with curiosity.

"There’s cold chicken inside it," replied the Rat briefly: "cold​tongue​cold​ham​cold​beef​pickled​gherkins​salad​french​rolls​cress​sandwiches​potted​meat​ginger​beer​lemonade​soda​water—"

"O stop, stop!" cried the Mole in ecstasies. "This is too much!"

"Do you really think so?" enquired the Rat seriously. "It’s only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I’m a mean beast and cut it very fine!"

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(yes I stole from Star Wars)

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“Oh for God’s sake my dear fellow, you’re the one animal that’s always walking around on all fours. And much as we all like to think that those piglets are just missing, we all really know you’ve gone back to your old ways. Haven’t you?”