Phoenix Maplewood Thinking 'bout the last time I saw you smiling

Saena hasn't even given much thought to the personalities and lives of prey animals. Indeed, she rarely thinks about other animals in general. A vain goat who plots and schemes and speaks with wolves is difficult to imagine, but Saena knows of vanity and scheming in her own way and is able to apply the story to her experiences. Curling her forepaws under her chest, the woman tilts her neck and brings her head nearer to Shreya, hanging on to the story now in a way she hasn't done since she was a pup.

Shreya's voice builds as she describes the charging goats, and with it, so does Saena's inexplicable excitement. Anticipation seizes her chest and her ears press forward, and she quietly asks, "does one fall off the cliff?" She flinches almost immediately afterward, a sheepish look on her face—she's acting like a pup!—but indeed she wishes to know how the story ends, how the vain goat got her wish or was thwarted, perhaps because she wonders if she herself should ever get her wishes or be thwarted.