Moonspear i’m on the dark side of a hollow hill

dirge was digging in the earth once arcturus came across him. arcturus spared the lean squirrel the briefest of glances, before he sucked in his breath and prepared for the well-practiced, but terribly inept, speech that was sure to come out of him soon. he hoped he would not sound stupid (he knew he had been stupid) -- it was that tangent of thought that caused arcturus to quail, and suddenly lose all of his carefully prepared speech.

"not much of a squirrel." he commented, trying to sound casual. it was likely dirge would pick up the tension in his voice - he was extremely aware of how tight his tone sounded. "did you.." he paused, scarlet rising to his burning cheeks: "was my sister your first?"