Big Salmon Lake No room for the weak or the timid

Luke explained that he'd been this way since birth. Maybe it was a birthmark then? Peregrine was still pondering it when the fellow jovially requested his name, albeit not without a playfully sarcastic remark.

"I didn't -- Perry," he said, shaking his head lightly. "I've never seen an animal with a blue nose before. Or tongue or nose or paws, for that matter. Although Mo -- uh, my mom, that is -- told me about a kind of bird called a blue footed booby. Are you of any relation?" he quipped, then finally smiled.