what a heart will miss

The hard earth didn’t meet her the way it did when she fell from the tree in front of Hattori, instead a cloud of familiar scent wafted up around her as her fall was broken. The girl squeed and wrapped her paws around the body beneath her, burying her face happily in the thick, splotched fur over his rump while her tail thwacked him in the face. Happy tears stung her eyes but she couldn’t let him see her crying so she refused to get up straight away. “Where have you been?” the girl happily wailed, squeezing even tighter if he dared to moved. “I missed you so much!”

“Speech.”