Northstar Vale long enough

At once, Dag began to feel a little silly. You don't need to get up, he wanted to say, but it seemed too late to correct her assumptions. He'd never approached her for something like this before - of course she wouldn't expect that he just wanted to talk.

But, suddenly, walking didn't seem like such a bad idea, either. It gave him something to do with his paws, which suddenly seemed far to big and clunky to keep in one place.

"I'm thinking about going to visit some friends," he replied, ears flattening slightly as the words came out of his mouth. They weren't his friends.