Quote Originally Posted by Glass Mouse View Post
Coyote is no liar. Therein lies the danger.
Yes. This. I suspect Coyote always tells the truth. Maybe not the whole truth, and maybe he tells it in a way that leads people to get the wrong idea; but for a trickster, to lie using nothing BUT truth would be a badge of honor. If Coyote says he believes he does not exist and is the product of the mind of man, then that is what he believes. Although it may not be ALL he believes...

And I don't understand this idea some have that Coyote is trying to break up Annie and Ysengrin's friendship. If you consider carefully, it's clear Coyote is WHY they're friends. Who showed Annie Ysengrin as he sees himself, as others see him, and as he really is? Who revealed Annie's nature to Ysengrin? Who kept putting the two of them together in circumstances where the distraught, frightened cub would need reassurance and spine stiffening, and where the grouchy, bitter old wolf would benefit from respect, companionship, and even affection from the not-completely-human? If Coyote wanted them as enemies, he could have just exacerbated their initial feelings towards each other; instead, he's gone the other way. For purposes of his own. Which may be about to bear fruit; Annie's questioning of why Ysengrin insists on being in a humanoid shape, and her efforts to reassure him in turn, might be about to bring the cause of Ysengrin's hate and rage to the surface...