Silver Creek 'til I see the lights of my home town

Her lilac eyes seemed to glow. Windlass! Suddenly, she took a flying leap at her husband, as if she might tackle him to the ground with enough enthusiasm. The reality that these individuals would soon be living and breathing among them was almost too much for her heart to carry. Love poured from her eyes and dropped snottily from her nose.

"I love those names!" she declared, taking out her preemptive cuteness-aggression on the thick fur of his scruff. "I love them. I love you."

She babbled to him, overcome, hardly aware of what she was saying. She would soon have a whole and proper family again, and she has only this man to thank. Thanking him, then, had just become her life's mission.