Heron Lake Plateau the world grows older every day.

He flailed a bit for dramatic effect, wallowing on the surface of the ice while Finley slipped and fell onto her bottom and then eventually skittered over to him. He bit his own lower lip to keep from bursting out laughing; far overhead, he spotted X circling, and wondered just how ridiculous they looked from a bird's eye view.

Fin seized his foreleg in her mouth and began to tug him back towards shore. She was surprisingly successful, despite her small stature, and as he skimmed along over the frozen water, Elwood threw his other foreleg over his face and cried out, "My hero! How will I ever repay you?"