#scarsdale

Bronte flutters down on her mistress' shoulder

"Good job, darling." Scritches, and they head back home.

She nuzzles, watching the girls retreat "“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway"

"Aye... what are fairy tales, if not that?"

Agreement "“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” She need not name Peter Beagle for Zara knows the Last Unicorn well

"Aye." A sigh.

At the sigh, a dragon tongue licks Zara's ear.

A chuff of laughter.

And the smell of yet more food from the house

Breakfast calls

(End scene)