last lovely smile

He didn’t expect her to answer him, maybe even tease him for being a dumb baby, but she actually gave him an answer, like he was someone that mattered. Maybe, it was just the plunder that made her mean and that was why she kept sneaking off? He blinked his big blue eyes as she went on, and squinted into the distance. A land bridge? And a statue?! He wanted to see them! “D’ya think we can find’em another one ‘ere?” His tail waved expectantly, if there was a weird statue nearby maybe he could climb on it and be even taller than she was?

Without waiting for an answer the boy bounded forward, his nose to the ground snuffling about in search of the illusive statue. What he found himself instead, was a nose full of blackberry thorns. The boy yelped and jumped back, since when did bushes bite anyway?!