Chapter Four
Penny was walking toward him now from the checkout counter. She’d been talking to Henrietta about something and whatever it’d been, it’d helped a lot. Her shoulders were more relaxed. Her face wasn’t drawn quite as tightly. When she looked up at him he didn’t see the same level of hesitation that’d been there a few minutes ago.
Mate! Claim mate! Kann sucked in air and willed his pacing lion to ‘shut the hell up’, as Naomi so often put it. Apparently, her dragon like to push a lot, which didn’t surprise him. Naomi had only been sharing her spirit with an animal for a month. It took years for younglings to learn to live in harmony with the animal inside. He remembered getting into so much trouble as a child. His lion was so curious and never thought about consequences. Of cour
