Moonspear Chipper and Loud

Kindle narrowly refrained from rolling his eyes. It was just that Katmai had talked of little else for almost an hour, so the words seemed a little ironic.

"It calls for singers to sing, maybe," he challenged, his tone long-suffering. "I'll sing at festivals and I'll sing if everyone else is, but I'm not really the 'whistle while you work' type. Makes hunting real difficult, see?"

He shot her a smile.

"Always happy to be in the audience, though," he assured her. He had plenty of practice at that, after all. "I'm good at cheering at the end. That's why I never got picked for parts in the performances back home. They needed me in the audience."