there was one shadow, now there are two

He landed, successfully perching upon her nape long enough to crawl up to the top of her head. "That's it minion. Nice and easy." He patted her crown, tapping it with a hooked thumb a few times before she took to shaking her head. "Wooooaaaahhh!" He clung to her, holding on for dear life and was thankful that he'd had plenty of practice in that. The whole "sleeping upside down" thing made for very powerful toes.

"Minion! We've still got a lot of work to do." He took the moment's reprieve to talk at her. She didn't appear to understand him, but that was fine. They'd figure it out eventually. Maybe develop their own special code or something. That would be cool. Like a secret club or something. He rather liked that idea. 

What he didn't like was the sudden ducking motion she made with her head as she lifted a paw to scrape him off her neck. He wasn't expecting that and her paw hit true, planting itself on his tiny body and flinging him across the clearing. He landed on the ground a few yards away and rolled to a stop beneath the base of a tree. He lay there, dazed and confused for a bit. His head hurt.