We'll Sit and Watch the Sky Fall Down

“I do!” she agreed, looking up at her vessel with a smile on her golden features. She wiggled her butt onto the furs as Iho laid them down. Waiting for him to join her. Once he did so, he would show her another surprise. A feast of dried meats and berries, that together smelled sweet and savoury and delicious. Her appetite was barely returning to her since her sickness, and she found the scent of his feast opened a bottomless pit in her cavernous stomach.

Despiste her hunger, she nibbled delicately on a morsel, leaning lightly against the larger wolf. When he spoke, she looked up at him in confusion, wondering what he could be… Oh! Oh, she understood now. She craned forward, getting a better look of the ocean. Her heart filled with emotion as she remembered the brief time in passing where she had told Iho how she wished to go dolphin watching. The boy had remembered, he had taken her here on her birthday and given her this surprise. She sniffed, shocked and the emotions running through her. How unladylike! She shouldn’t be crying over his delightful gift.

“Oh, Kumiho, this is perfect.” she leaned over and patted his paw, trying to hide her sniffing. “This is my favourite day so far in my entire life” she declared, before leaning over and reaching into the little bag she had managed to bring with her before Iho had dragged them. She was glad she had! Iho had told her they shared a birthday, and so she had been working on something. She pulled out an item wrapped in a thin piece of cloth. She reached over and handed the clothed item to him. “This is for you, Iho. Happy Birthday” she said, almost shyly.

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