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Mason gazed at her with some confusion and embarrassment. It was nice that she would say such kind things to him. The truth was he was bedraggled and starving. He had barely caught a rabbit since he had left home, he had simply left straight after a hunt to enable him a few days’ travelling fat. “I’m not very good, really, I just got a sicky rabbit or I’d have gone home by now..” Mason protested softly, not wanting to banish the kind images she had of his hunting prowess, but not wanting to lie either.

He watched her carefully as she focussed on her task. It appeared she had located something and Mason followed her. He too caught the scent of something and when she queried it with him, Mason nodded, white fur bobbing in time with his movements. “Yeah! Do you think we can find it before it disappears?” Mason whispered enthusiastically, his tail wagging. His stomach had suddenly let out a pang with all this talk of fresh meat. He waited to follow Desna’s lead – she was the hunter after all.