Moonspear This Is Just a Dream

"Yeah, it is," Charon said, his confident smile growing; he loved being complimented and so he could not wipe the smile off his face as she went on to lavish him and Ame's mateship as well as their pack with compliments. A year was indeed a long time, at least to him. She did not look too old herself, so probably the same went for her too.

"Thank you," he said to her, and then a silence fell between them, for he wasn't really sure what else to talk about. Maybe there was something else she wanted to hear about, but surely she'd ask him herself if she wanted to hear it. As a kid he might've gone blabbering on about things, especially after having found a victim willing to hear him out, but he was curious now to see if she would grow uncomfortable again in the silence and eager to find out what she would ask next.