Redhawk Caldera And nobody cries, there’s only butterflies.

She wondered if Amalia likely knew some of this, considering her dabbling with medicines. But if she did, she didn’t belabor the point. She actually thanked Towhee for her knowledge, which earned a grin around the bone in the Redhawk’s mouth.

It’s seriously my pleasure. You’re carrying my grandbabies now. Between Killer and me, we’re gonna take really good care of you guys. You’ll want for nothing. Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a bony in my eye.

She grasped her chew between two toes and mockingly jabbed it toward her eye, then laughed and dropped it back between her forelegs. Soon it was scooped back into her mouth, rattling against her teeth as her gaze cast outdoors to the view of the sunken lake.

Killer out on patrol? she wondered around the bone.