I've been a bit slack this week, so have made up for today with 3,200 words which I'm quite pleased with. Not sure they're good words, but they're words.

Anyway, in an effort to add a bit of colour, one paragraph with the vargr Gvoudzon reads:

“I didn’t know him for long,” says Gvoudzon, “but he was very good to me. Never any of the dog jokes humans often give me. When we lifted weights, he took an interest on my different physiology.” He lisps the last word; it’s difficult to get his teeth round. “I taught him everything he knew about the omotransversarius muscle.”
The other two look blank and he points to his forelimb.

(The "on" is a deliberate pronoun error).

But my question is, I know that vargr are specifically not supposed to 'just' be intelligent dogs and they stand upright and all. So would they, in fact, have an omotransversarius muscle which my limited googling tells me is a muscle humans don't have but which dogs do. And one that might reasonably be 'exercised'?

While I'm here, two other questions came up although perhaps not quite as "risky" - even from a bear of little brain.

Is my calculation of a 40km horizon at height 200m on a size 5 world (let's say radius 2500 miles) about right? [1]

I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood) and came up with quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of homage to triticale being turned into quadrotriticale for Star Trek's Trouble With Tribbles episode. But is the nature of glycerine such that that's just completely ridiculous?

cheers

[1] The calculation I'm doing is

d^2 = h^2 + 2 * R^2 * h

(d=distance, h=eye height, R= radius)

so:

40,000m = SQRT (200m^2 + 2 * 4,000,000m * 200)

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