Royce's Random Thoughts

It hadn't like Naomi had been elected pack leader or anything. It was just that everyone kept looking at her whenever the subject of "How do we pass for human?" kept coming up.

"He had a tail!" Chad shouted at her. 

"Billy's legs were together," Naomi repeated. "He was was doing a butterfly stroke."

"He had a tail!" Chad insisted. "With a fin on it!"

"Come on, Chad. You lost fair and square," one of the Leaning Tree counselors said, looking annoyed. "It's time for the next event."

Lesson #1. Deny everything until an adult gets annoyed enough to intervene.

***

"Salli, why did that drone deliver a palm comp to my boat?"

"Because you weren't answering your radio, Rolas."

"I turned it off."

"Yes, I know. It's been off for sixty days now. Mother and Father are growing concerned. So am I."

"I'm just sailing."

"You've been sailing in circles for two months, with no contact with land. That isn't normal, Rolas. Do you know how many parties you've missed?"

"I'm sure Mother and Father will inform me, at length."

"Is it… really that hard for you?"

"Salli, you have no idea."

"Sigh. I'll cover for you."

"Thank you, Salli."

* * *

Andrea looked down the list on her palm comp. "That's a rather… unusual set of specs," she noted dryly.

"When I commission something, I want top of the line," the underdressed pirate vixen noted. Beside her, a shorter vixen with black and white fur looked around the shop, a heavy chain choker around her neck.

"Full bodysuits like this one are pretty rare, and expensive, especially in Living Leather."

"But you can make it, yes?"

"Yes," Andrea turned to the shorter vixen. "And you really want to wear this?"

"What milady wants, milady gets," the vixen replied with a grin.