Dawnlark Plains Back to Me

Grayday squinted at the girl, thinking that she had rather missed the point of his admonition. Still, she seemed in good spirits, and he was loath to take that away from her when she had so long been melancholy.

"Let me know if there's anything I can do to help," he said with a wag of his tail, waiting a moment longer to see if she would ask anything of him then and there. If not, he would bid her adieu and go on his way.