Sun Mote Copse And so I quit the p'lice department

She stopped chewing when Bronco pitched his offer. Her eyes widened a little and her tail thumped the ground as she then began chewing rapidly, choked down the mouthful of meat a little too early anyhow and sprayed crumbs of gristle as she said, "Really?"

There was still the matter of her mother. Could Towhee be swayed by Bronco's promise to escort her? Did Meerkat want to press Towhee, with everything else currently on her plate? Then there was the matter of everybody else in the pack. She flipped through the mental checklist of names again. She would never leave without speaking to everybody on it. Maybe she wouldn't need everybody's blessing (mostly just Phox's and Niamh's) but she at least wanted to inform them all.

"That would be so cool," Meerkat said after gathering her thoughts a moment, "but I wanna talk to my mom, dad and Neema before we do anything. Is that okay?"