walk this way

slight pp if that's ok ;)

"This is the most riveting conversation I've had in ages," he commented as he stretched out his forelegs and arched his back into a long stretch. His attention span was limited, and boredom was fast overtaking him. But he was not about to give her what she wanted, which was his absence. Without the least bit of foretelling, he sprang from his rock, landing in the water beside her. He was so quick to follow up with a nip to her muzzle that the splash of water had not even settled when his teeth so lightly clipped her, and he was even quicker to leap backward out of reach of any knee-jerk retaliation. If she wanted to get him back, she'd have to take a couple paces first.