Bear Hug

Um, let these two be besties, plz.

Ty giggled when the bear told her she was "puny," but she didn't take offense. Even compared to her rather tall father, Tytonidae was small. She still had an awful lot of growing left to do, after all. When the great bear began laughing, the puny adolescent followed suit, feeding off the large predator's laughter and making it her own. The guffaw of the bear was almost unreal to the girl who had only ever heard wolves and her friends laugh.

When she finally managed to gain back control, Ty concentrated on her breath to slow it down. “What were you eating?” she asked. Tytonidae had grappled with leaves as a child, but they had never been something she had considered eating. This bear, on the other hand, had been plucking something off the bush and chowing down on it like it was her last meal on earth.