Cricket Creek Bog Clicky Crickets

Handsome. He almost scoffed at that, but her next words put a grim look on his face. Though it had been pleasant at the time, his memories of his former home weren't something he liked to revisit. Hindsight had put a cruel (if more realistic) twist on the experience and left him with a bitter taste in his mouth.
There are only two kinds of wolves who survive where I'm from, Tokie. Nathaniel mimicked her emphasis of his name, tone no longer so standoffish. And they're not the tough ones.