Sleepy Fox Hollow Down the road

Donnie continued to stare at the cat as Andean tilted his head back. He glanced to the boy as if to remind him that this was really poor timing to break eye contact with the panther, but he then heard a faint sliver of sound. 

But it was quiet, distant- nobody else would hear that, Donnie thought. So he pressed his shoulder into Anselm’s, keeping his gaze steady on the cat who seemed content to stay where it was so long as nobody moved.