Sweet Spring Breezes

He nodded with a chuckle, fully confident she’d win out over him. A full laugh escaped at her mock cockiness, but he quipped back easily, “You’ll clobber all the competition, if not by brawn, then by sheer sass and witty remarks.”

He pranced to his paws with a swish of his bi-colored tail, dropping into a playful bow before popping to stand again. “As long as you don’t try to break my legs, I think I’ll live.”

He grinned, a bit more softly, reading the concern behind the joke. “I know you won’t try to hurt me for real, not unless I seriously earn it, and I hope that I don’t find a way to make you that mad… because I’m pretty sure you’d skip the bone-breaking and go straight to evisceration by claw.”

His tongue poked out with the tease at the end before he brushed lightly past her and pranced down the incline, tail jauntily waving in the air as he led the way to the bottom, flashing a bright grin over his shoulder at her.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think