#rivervale_lodge

"you're wonderful, connor."

His cheeks redden, and he scratches at an ear bashfully. "Shucks. I can just get a ride from Knight Captain Siv. She's a Sea Lion, but she made a face when I told her she should be able to balance a ball on her nose. Oh! Maybe if I put one there when she's sleeping she can learn it."

"Oh" A pause "Maybe Knight Captain Siv can take you in her ship to visit me? Or me to visit you?"

"She can bring you on her magical barge when you need to come, and I can take the trods! I'm sained so I'm allowed." Perhaps a bit of a fib there. "And you can call me from your new house if you need a rescue."

"perhaps I shall write a letter to you of how I am captured in my father's dungeon, when I so prefer the attic?"

"I do like letters." He admits.

A sigh "or I could call you" So typical though "But I don't talk loud on the phone either"

"That's why I keep my ears so big, just to hear you."

And he wiggles his ears demonstrably!

She gives a wheeze laugh at that