Bramblepoint Before planet Earth was here, I was riding a light year.

She caught a glimpse of pale fur through an alley of tree trunks. Towhee thoughtlessly aimed that way, though she quickly realized she wasn’t looking at her son. Her orange eyes blinked loudly at the unfamiliar woman—she reminded Towhee of Fennec and Meerkat—and then began turning her head this way and that way.

BUTTSHIT! she shouted without a care in the world what she must look and sound like to the other she-wolf. Voice raising even more, she added, Get your ass back in my eye line right this second! and summarily ignored the stranger.