Totoka River sleep with the devil you know

he got the memo she wasn't one for soppy exchanges and promptly backed off as she lay to groom herself. "no" he responded as he slid to his haunches, tail curling neatly to his side as he lifted a paw to chew at his nails.

"do you?" he asked, though he could already guess the answer. sea spray and sand had woven their way so deeply into her coat, it would come as more of a surprise to hear she did not live here than anything else.