“I’m not complaining. You’re soft.”
“To be fair, that is what I like about you having skin, too, my dear. Skin is soft, as well. Were you a furry, though, what species would you be?”
Ey pet along her back, thinking. “I don’t know. I’ve only really had extensive interactions with skunks, foxes, and weasels. Maybe a squirrel?”
-She rolled off eir front and sat up eagerly. “A squirrel? Really? Would you be one of those fancy red ones with the ear tufts and outrageous tales or one of the gray ones that were all over where I grew up?”
+She rolled off eir front and sat up eagerly. “A squirrel? Really? Would you be one of those fancy red ones with the ear tufts and outrageous tails or one of the gray ones that were all over where I grew up?”
A quick query of the perisystem archive gave em a good idea of what each might look like. “The red ones sound really ostentatious. I don’t know if I could pull that off.”
-She retrieved her coffee mug from em and settled in beside em instead. “Yes, but the tail,” she whined. “Come on, my dear. You would simply have to be a red squirrel. You dress all fancy, still, even.”
+She retrieved her coffee mug from em and settled in beside em instead. “Yes, but the tail,” she whined. “Come on, my dear. You would simply have to be a red squirrel. You dress all fancy, still, even.”
“Are they bigger than skunk tails?”
She looked thoughtful for a moment, then shrugged. “Solid competition.”
“I can’t picture anything having a bigger tail than you, May. Definitely outrageous.”
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@Ey laughed and shook eir head, standing to go stir the stew by way of ruffling over her ears. “Skunks are so weird. I’ll just have to trust you on that.”