From biblical stories of hunting spiritual flocks to the lascivious grandmother-devourer of Little Red Riding Hood, few animals have inspired such psychic terror as wolves. Nor have many faced such intense persecution. However, it is difficult to find any monstrosity in this image of Fenris, a gray wolf (Canis lupus) at Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico, who was rescued from the exotic pet trade. His namesake comes from Norse mythology, after a gigantic wolf that the gods imprisoned with a magical chain for fear of his destructive potential. Yet this Fenris' expression—head slightly tilted and ears perked—is soft and curious rather than menacing. My ethnographic research examines multispecies kinship between humans and animals in sanctuaries like Wild Spirit, where I was Fenris' caretaker. This is my favorite picture of him; not just because his vulnerability dispels Big Bad Wolf myths, but because it captures the trust he gave me, despite having every reason not to. Fenris died from cancer in October 2025. His story is a retort to the old gods: Let us not chain one another based on the fear of what might be. Instead, let us break those chains in the hope of what might be.