Sensing Bubbles wasn’t going to speak, Niko continued. “Now come on, Bubs. I know you’d hate to lose a limb over something this trivial, right?” His tail flicked back and forth, pounding dust from the floor in its excitement.
Peeking behind him towards Pickles, he scrunched his lips tighter together. Niko sighed. In a flash, his tail had wrapped around the Xentharian’s throat as he released his grip, the scales clicking down his back as they made their way closer.
Bubbles leaned his head away. Eyes closed, he awaited the inevitable. There were many things he had been in his life. A snitch was never one of them.
Click…click…click…
The sound echoed in his ears as it closed in.
“STOP! It was me! Let him go!”
Moved by his companion’s fortitude, Pickles stepped forward.
“Well, well, well
