Noctisardor Bypass Making love at the break of dawn.

Earn your supper.

Gideon was a distracted child most of the time. He had a very colorful world always inside of his head where he spent a great deal of time. Sometimes that world inside his head was just a quiet murmur, but sometimes it was so loud, it drowned out everything around him. He would always have a serious case of squirrel brain when that happened.

Once in a while, something would capture Gideon's attention so completely that his inner world disappeared, allowing him to be pinpoint focused on the present. Now was such a time. The moment Anselm hunched over, Gideon followed suit, scanning the ground for the signs Anselm described.

There! What should have been long blades of grass were instead truncated stalks, their finely tapered ends cut down to jagged crowns. Once he saw one, he saw another, and another, and soon he swore he could see the very paths the rabbits took during their feedings.

Cool and all, but that didn't help him earn his supper. Luckily, Ezra was there to show him the way. Gideon studied his brother for several beats, and when he realized just what Ezra was doing, he scampered to another spot where the grass was cropped low and began to dig as well.