Cedar Sweep We opened a door (we shouldn't have).

He seemed to find the signs amusing, as did she as Bronco repeated them back to her. She arched an eyebrow, wondering if he'd intuited any of their meanings on his own, since she hadn't bothered vocalizing them. Towhee guessed he must've, because he didn't ask. And now he came up with a few more curses of his own. Assuming he was just intuitive (what little boy wouldn't immediately recognize such crude gestures?), she shrugged and obliged his requests.

Teaching her nephew of sorts a bunch of swears had served as a good distraction for them both, though soon they were straddling the copse's borders. Towhee swept them with her orange gaze, seeing no sign of Niamh, and faced Bronco to ask, -"Think you could call your mom for me?"-