Moonlight on water

Mothers are always right. Burke was right about this one. They were - except the kids rather than obeying, wanted to try out in practice - make mistakes only to arrive to the same conclusion. MO hadn't been of romantic sort and hadn't sugarcoated the nature of relationship between the two sexes. Yet she had never told her about "them breaking hearts" - this was something she had come up with inspired by the moment.

The news that he had bit his own tail off were a bit surprising and made Osprey glance up at him and eye curiously. Then Burke made a mistake, he probably hadn't intended to make. Run away - two words only were needed for her memory to recover a scene that had taken place during one of the nights she had spent out in the wilds. There had been three males fighting and her fleeing the scene. She also remembered the dislike for the biggest one of them.

She took off the mask of pretence and revealed her true face - a sly smile appeared in her lips and her eyes were glinting in a held-back laughter. "So, Casanova," she said with a tinge of victory in her voice. "Now, I recall you... Did those dogs whoop your ass? Never stayed long enough to see the outcome. Though it would have been exciting," she asked him in cheeky manner, her tone indicating that she so wished that he had got a good kick.