Swiftcurrent Creek not so secret agent

The noise earned Maera's instant approval. The little girl went from terror to heart-bursting joy in a split second, wagging her tail so hard that it was a miracle of physics that she did not take off and disappear over the mountains.

Her sister wasn't quite so easily charmed, though, and that fact earned her a wry little smile from the white Beta. "You'd better take care of your sister, if you're so brave!" she responded to Jökull's increasingly impressive bursts of noise. "Come on, then, louder! Listen to this! Still on her elbows, Bazi opened her toothy jaws so wide that the hinges creaked, took the biggest breath of her life, and let it out an impossibly loud:

[size=xx-large]"HAAAAA!"[/size]