I saw your hair daily, not a bit of cake of frosting, and you definitely didn't smell like vanilla.

[They always tried, whenever any of them happened to be in the same place when time rolled around. It couldn't be helped when something had any of them called off elsewhere. The point was that they tried, right?

His head tilted against Jack's hand, and really it was nice to be able to relax like this. Sometimes he just needed that reassurance, even if just physically, that he was wanted.]

Very, very quickly- and I do not. All animals I've adopted came from outside the yard.

[He could joke right back about that.]