Ouroboros Spine I'd trade it all to taste a drop

Please feel free to skip Valiant!

Katmai laughed as Raindrop introduced herself. He could not remember any direct interactions with Raindrop, but she'd still been a prominent figure in his life. She was the gatekeeper of some of his closest age mates, after all!

"Please — I remember you," he assured the woman, his tail wagging. "It's me, Katmai Morningside. You may remember me better as a brown blur chasing after your daughter with a lizard."

He and his siblings had been the youngest children in Moontide, as far as he remembered — but that had not stopped him from being a terrible menace in his youth. And, speak of the devil!

"Hello, Angel Oak," he said, just a little bashfully. She had always been older than him, but he was shocked to find that she looked like a woman, now. "You are as beautiful as your mother," he told her, smiling sweetly at Raindrop and shooting a more evil grin at his elder(ly) cousin.

Valiant aimed a little snap at his hindquarters, so Katmai made an effort to behave.

"I'd like to see Ponderosa as well," he commented, secretly quite desperate to see how the other girl had grown up. He was deeply entrenched in his admiration of and desire for Kinusi, but he still couldn't help but be curious about his childhood friend — though he'd never had as much to do with Ponderosa as her more outgoing and boisterous siblings. "How is she?" he asked instead of insisting.