Blacktail Deer Plateau Black and blue

Osprey reported kissing dozens, a declaration which earned a shrewd and speculative glance from her brother. Was she speaking literally or was she whimsically exaggerating? Or perhaps a bit of both? He couldn't decide. It would be just like her to kiss actual frogs and halfway expect them to transform into princes, though.

She told him she intended to save her Prince Charming from an evil dragon, thereby reversing many of the old fairytales. Peregrine thumped his tail in approval in lieu of laughing. Osprey would never be anyone's damsel in distress, so it fit that she would go looking for a man and rescue him instead.

"I feel like that's what hit me: a big old dragon snout." He winced. "You can always practice on me until you find the real deal," he added with a puff of air meant to sound like a laugh without making him rue the doe who'd clouted him.