That's... what it was like for me, too. Nothing felt strange. It didn't feel like I was in a dream...

[Her arm around him unconsciously tightens.]

Those feelings were real. When I looked at those pups, I felt... I don't know how to explain...

[It felt like they were hers, and that other wolf had been the mate she'd chosen. It was the same things she feels whenever she looks at Eustace or is near him. That warm, fluttery, overwhelmingly happy feeling turned up past even what she knows and is aware of.]

Those parts, they... felt nice.