When there was one dingy, ill-groomed youngster, there would eventually be two. One more raggedy than the other to gather by the watering hole.
Canary puffed up, crusty hackles separating and rising before settling quietly back to its designated dirt nook.
Her chin was lingering over a hoof-shaped imprint holding rain water. Canary grabbed two licks, raised her head in anticipation, and tilted her ears in greeting, while the man chased a scent in the air. Why was he being weird?
”I’m here!” She answered him girlishly and naively, as if he wasn’t a stranger, but a friend she coincidentally bumped into, and embellished in a feeling she was calling him over rather than greeting him. The man’s gaze seemed to float. Odd. But it was finally someone who wasn’t family! ”You snuck up on me!” An accusation followed in a similarly teenage exclamation.
Canary puffed up, crusty hackles separating and rising before settling quietly back to its designated dirt nook.
Her chin was lingering over a hoof-shaped imprint holding rain water. Canary grabbed two licks, raised her head in anticipation, and tilted her ears in greeting, while the man chased a scent in the air. Why was he being weird?
”I’m here!” She answered him girlishly and naively, as if he wasn’t a stranger, but a friend she coincidentally bumped into, and embellished in a feeling she was calling him over rather than greeting him. The man’s gaze seemed to float. Odd. But it was finally someone who wasn’t family! ”You snuck up on me!” An accusation followed in a similarly teenage exclamation.