"Eostre." He tucks a strand of hair behind her ear and smiles, in spite of himself, in spite of everything. "Remember, she made me promise not to go near them?" He's not sure how Hobbes would forget, what with the almost getting eaten and the yelling-at he'd gotten after.

"Well, when the fence went down and they came to us and I went out with a team to heard them back, she wasn't too interested in semantics."