Jade Fern Grove off the edge

Vex had no trouble catching the chocolate-furred boy's attention. Ikiaq's first thought was wow, he's big now. His second thought came out of his mouth instead, a bit indignant, "I'm not that small!" He was still mean, apparently, which Ikiaq was expecting, but at least it wasn't as mean as last time. Yet. "Maybe you're just big." Or maybe both. Ikiaq seemed to have inherited more his mother's size, which was not ideal. His father was big, after all. 

"I was looking for you, actually," he informed the other boy, ears angling toward him. "But I didn't think I'd just run into you like this."