Ouroboros Spine BWP: TSS There be treasure here

Shemesh laughed lightly as Ajei tried to pronounce her name. It was a completely natural string of sounds to her, but surely very foreign to the pup. She was proud of Ajei for mostly getting it in the end.

Proud of her for being cautious and brave, too. Shemesh hoped that if she acted less trustworthy, the girl would act accordingly. ”That would be mean. I won’t snatch you, I promise — and you won’t have to bite,” Shemesh said, just in case Ajei thought of another reason to sink sharp, little teeth into her.

The coydog padded over to Ajei’s digging hole, and gasped at the little treasure inside. ”You found a geode!” she yipped, pawing at the dirt around the cracked stone. ”You see how it looks like a regular rock on the outside, but a crystal on the inside? That’s how you know it’s a geode.” At least that was what her master told her. Noam collected crystals of all shapes and sizes, and she even remembered some of their names.