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* EatTheDog: Lamya eats dogs. Biscuit helps.
** She also suggest that at some point all the meat and all the humans will be gone, and the dogs will resort to eating each other.
** Also implied by Hlolwa, in that without human meat present she'd be willing to look to other dog species if she had to.
** Henli tells our heroes that [[spoiler:when the humans ran out of meat, they wanted to start eating their dogs.]]
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Sekayi is seen slaughtering the doglike (but human-bodied) screamers for food.]]
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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler: Tareq calls Mhumhi ''Darkeye'' dog when he, Kutta, and Mini finally reunite with him and Maha while the three dogs are finishing fighting off Hlolwa's police dogs.]]

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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler: Tareq calls Mhumhi ''Darkeye'' dog "''Darkeye'' dog" when he, Kutta, and Mini finally reunite with him and Maha while the three dogs are finishing fighting off Hlolwa's police dogs.]]
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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler: Tareq calls Mhumhi ''Darkeye'' dog when he, Kutta, and Mini finally reunite with him and Maha while the three dogs are finishing fighting off Hlolwa's police dogs.]]
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* FormerlySapientSpecies: While there ''are'' still sapient humans around, they're very rare in the city where the story takes place. Most of them are bouda, [[spoiler:who spend their reproductive years as non-sapient spotted hyenas before ''usually'' metamorphosing into sapient humans. Some get stuck partway through the transformation.]] Later, we meet [[spoiler:the screamers, a human subspecies whose ancestors willingly gave up their sapience to allow themselves to become food for their [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted dogs]]]].

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* FormerlySapientSpecies: While there ''are'' still sapient humans around, they're very rare in the city where the story takes place. Most of them are bouda, [[spoiler:who spend their reproductive years as non-sapient spotted hyenas before ''usually'' metamorphosing into sapient humans. Some get stuck partway through the transformation.transformation, never regaining sapience.]] Later, we meet [[spoiler:the screamers, a human subspecies whose ancestors willingly gave up their sapience to allow themselves to become food for their [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted dogs]]]].
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* FormerlySapientSpecies: While there ''are'' still sapient humans around, they're very rare in the city where the story takes place. Most of the are bouda, [[spoiler:who spend their reproductive years as non-sapient spotted hyenas before ''usually'' metamorphosing into sapient humans. Some get stuck partway through the transformation.]] Later, we meet [[spoiler:the screamers, a human subspecies whose ancestors willingly gave up their sapience to allow themselves to become food for their [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted dogs]]]].

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* FormerlySapientSpecies: While there ''are'' still sapient humans around, they're very rare in the city where the story takes place. Most of the them are bouda, [[spoiler:who spend their reproductive years as non-sapient spotted hyenas before ''usually'' metamorphosing into sapient humans. Some get stuck partway through the transformation.]] Later, we meet [[spoiler:the screamers, a human subspecies whose ancestors willingly gave up their sapience to allow themselves to become food for their [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted dogs]]]].

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