Rising Sun Valley Dear Fellow Traveller

His lip tightened, but he supposed that was fair. Loving family came as easy as breathing to him, and though their faults seemed small compared to what Tauris had told them, his parents weren't perfect.

His tail wagged a little at her returned banter, and he grinned all over again. "Not so many... You'd be the first, actually." He'd met girls in flowered meadows, and girls under shaded willow, but never in a storm like this. Maybe it was fate.