Big Salmon Lake Mumbling To My Heart

She was smiling, he must have said it right. He echoed the expression, letting his lips spread in a happy sort of grin as she told him he'd done well and moved on to the next few words. A phrase this time. He wasn't quite sure where one word started and the other ended. He parted his lips to speak and noted her smile turned into a grin. "Nope," he said, dragging a paw through the water to splash at her. "Not until you tell what that means." He wasn't gonna fall for that one, not when her smirk revealed some kind of sneaky intent. "The real meaning."

Her people were kind of diggers. He nodded, not quite certain what she meant by that, but he decided to drop it. In the grand scheme of things, he supposed it didn't really matter, but he was rather curious about her kind. They seemed so... different than what he was used to. As if they had an entirely different way of thinking. "I would like that," he said with a nod. "It's nice to learn about new ways of life."