Firefly Glen When Doves Cry

His heart leapt! He laughed, though she'd made no jokes, and filed the information carefully away. Snacks — he could find her plenty of snacks.

Despite intentions to set off at once in search of a decent territory, Kinusi's tip-tapping looked like too much fun not to try. He copied her, a bit clumsily as he tried to identify the tune she hummed. When he didn't know it, he committed himself to learning it with a savage kind of joy.

This was the start, he thought, of a beautiful friendship.

It would be a long while before they got much of anywhere, considering Katmai's mind was anything but one-track.

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