Claudia hadn't originally planned on dressing up, this year, but the realization that there'd be no foster families to tell her she was too old or that Halloween was a capitalist plot (she'd had some odd foster families) had spurred her on.

She'd been originally thinking she'd go as Wendy the Werewolf Stalker, but then she'd found a gorgeous red fox/wolf costume at the store and just had to have it. . . .

Which would be why the park now smelled like a college dorm*, as Claudia the maned wolf stalked about, chasing squirrels and ducks and marking her territory.

[* like cannabis, per wikipedia. Open! Claudia promises not to actually catch any radio squirrels.]