"We could mate with humans, but then we'd have to expose our existence, and there's no guarantee that the baby will be anadlet." She cleared her throat. "Of course, I'd love a human baby just as much as anadlet, but we need more halflings[…]"
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The dogs mated with other dogs and stayed in their canine form, but the halflings mated with both humans and dogs and so theadlets continued to spread across the land, always evolving. Someadlet families are more human than dog, ...