Blacktail Deer Plateau You can't take me, I'm free

"Oh, come on... you could at least act like you are surprised and afraid," Osprey whined. "Just a teeny bit to make a girl happy, please?" She mustered up an innocent face and looked at him expectantly, while her tail was wagging behind. But moments later she could not hold her joy inside and burst out laughing. How strange it was - they both were grown up, serious and boring wolves and yet, when she was around Peregrine, all she could think about was fun and fooling around. Today at least.

"Hmmm..." she thought a bit about the options - none of them seemed very exciting. Probably because these were the things they were doing every single day and would do for the rest of their lives. "We'll go dragonhunting," she finally told him. Stories of dragons were among Osprey's favorites and she had really got on the Falcons' lorekeeper's nerves, when she had asked her to tell about dragons over and over and over again. At one point it had seemed that there couldn't be enough dragons for Osprey.

"I can bet my life on it - I saw one this morning."