The bean, it must be found. For MHD's Fairytales contest.

I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.

The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.

Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.

If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.

Yeah, I had intended to address the Titan thing just to say that just because they were placed chronologically further back in the story of the Olympians, it didn't necessarily mean they were an actual distinct set of different gods from a different religion "replaced". I don't think there'd be a reason to put them as these important figures in the divine lineage instead of making the Olympians themselves the children of the earth and sky totally apart from them for one thing. And the references to Cronus date back to Homer and Hesiod the same as for many others. Take ALL of this with a grain of salt of course because it's not like I have a degree in this stuff, but it was likely after the stories of the Olympians solidified more (keep in mind that Homer was the first we know of to actually like, descriptively characterize them, we don't even know how far back that went in popular culture) that the need to fill in all their backstory lore to the beginning of time came in. Cronus is a pretty complex figure as the god of seasons and the destructive force of time, he's as important in his aspects that explain his niche of reality as the others. It's not like one day the Greeks went yeah we don't want to acknowledge the entropy that devours childhood anymore, let's replace him with horny lightning guy. (And in particular why would you say the main god of a religion you're replacing ruled humanity in an Edenic golden age, kind of underlines the shortcomings of the new one...) But Sent undoubtedly covered that in his Thunderdome sized post somewhere.