The werefox Jill. And while we're on the subject, why did LKH decide to characterize foxes as cowards? In all the legends I've ever read, foxes were either powerful tricksters and villains or sacred animals. Did LKH do her fox research from Dora the Explorer?

I'm sadly [well, happily, from what I'm reading on here] behind on reading, but I'm fairly certain that foxes=cowards is a Western concept. I'm thinking about the "Renard tales" of late romance, where Renard the fox comes out as a coward, however cunning, sly and quick-witted, against the wolf.
Which I personally value as working self-preservation instincts, but it might be just me..