Sun Mote Copse We get wild like a safari.

Exit Pip!

He knew he wasn’t the only one she had been with—and yet as his eyes skimmed over to a playful Meerkat, he could only see parts of Ostrega in her. His jaw tightened, and Towhee’s words were like a bulldozer—but even worse was the way she turned from him, her ability to finalize a conversation efficient given their conversing was her reading his lips.

And she returned to her happy family. The three of them—her back turned to him, and Pippin stood, removing himself from the situation with a new perspective of apparently the illusion he had been living when he had swore his loyalty to Towhee and her family and what that meant his worth was to her.