Stone Circle reiði

A soft churl of greeting and he pressed his own nose between her ears and neck, a paw along her foreleg. He chuckled softly at her greeting and her teasing.

I rested all night long. he joked back and he had. The minute he had lain down, he had been out for the long haul.

He had almost glibly said when I am dead, but given his advanced age, that joke was no longer in good taste.