Moonspear My favorite wine is tequila.

Toad gave voice to her thoughts. Meerkat shot her a smile. -"Naw,"- she agreed cheerily, the drawl reminding her of Bronco. Perhaps she'd picked it up from him. That thought made her heart smile.

They'd established the when, now it was time to decide the where. -"How about The Pale?"- Meerkat suggested. It didn't strike her as the best place to set the mood for a sunlit picnic, yet surely they could rendezvous there, rustle up some prey and then do the eating elsewhere.