And Part Two! enjoy folks!

Mira smiled as she picked up the last of the random trash around the room, unable to not smile at the moment. The only thing keeping her tail in check, was the need to not have it whacking everything in sight. Marcus and Will were busy rinsing all of the dishes, having already put away the left overs. Sheila and Wolf had put their family to bed in the spare rooms downstairs, before disappearing into the guest bedroom beside Marcus's. the pair had gotten into a massive argument during dinner over sports teams, which had become a total shouting match. Fox ended up breaking it up, but it still left Mira slightly concerned about the pair. But, given the fact that they still went to bed together, that concern was lessened. The pair had arguments and shouting matches all the time, as Nathan had told Aiya and Marcus repeatedly. So how ever it was their relationship was working, seemed to be still going strong. Krystal had always said their spirits were simply compatible opposites, much like a human yin and yang concept. That went over her head, the only one really able to make heads of tails of it likely being Krystal. Of course, Krystal and Fox had also gone to bed already, Fox having a bad bout with his leg, Krystal helping him to his bed room. None of the O'Donnell's were awake, mostly because they lived in a different time zone, so it was close to midnight for them, even though it was barely eight at night. Mira sighed as she realized that Aiya was asleep on the couch, burrowed inside of Will's old blanket, the soft brown blanket having been his since before Mira met him. she smiled at the sight, but she also couldn't help but sigh sadly as well. Aiya usually had a tough time staying awake on days where she was really active. Most school days, she barely even made it past seven. She had been barely even awake for the past hour of festivities, and probably wasn't going to remember the events of tonight at all.

"I'll go get her bed." Mira nearly jumped at Marcus's voice, glancing at the boy to see that he was already on his way to his room. He kept a spare folding bed for her in his closet, really just a very comfortable cot, specifically so she had a place to take a nap if she ever needed one. Although the pair had been found several times asleep together on one or the other's bed, the couch, and various other places. the funniest Mira had found, and still had a picture of, they had decided to read a novel together, only for the pair to fall asleep, still leaning up against the back of the bed, Aiya's head on his shoulder, his head on Aiya's, the open book still in her hands. These two are really going to make a cute couple someday. I just know it! she smiled as that thought cross her mind, hearing the water shut off in the kitchen. Will walked over to her, smirking as he saw Aiya. Neither got the chance to say a word as Marcus arrived, quickly setting the cot up behind the couch. Will gently lifted Aiya up, and set her on the cot, keeping her tucked into the blanket the whole, time, despite the fact that Aiya had a blanket and was currently stealing Will and Mira's. but Mira didn't see will complaining, and was definitely not going to herself. "Well, I think I'm off to bed too. night Will, night Mira." Marcus yawned before he spoke, quickly disappearing down the hall toward his own room.

"I'll be right back, gotta use the restroom." Mira nodded to Will as he spoke, letting her eye's fall back down to Aiya. She had curled herself back up on her side, still almost totally swathed in the blanket. A smile was still plastered onto her snout as she quietly slept, completely oblivious to the world. Mira crouched beside the cot and gently brushed Aiya's hair away from her eyes, the motion making the smile spread out a little more. It was amazing how much the girl had changed over the past seven years, from unable to sleep soundly without being cuddled up to one of them, and barely talking to anyone, even though she knew language very well. Marcus was actually the first person she really started talking to, around the age of four. She and Marcus had been almost inseparable since. Of course, until a few years ago, she was more often than not, sick, so they spent a lot of their time indoors. Now, they spent it exploring the neighborhood as much as they could, on the days she was feeling better. Even so, there had been several days that a panic stricken Marcus had come barreling through their front door, carrying an unconscious Aiya in his arms, the girl having collapsed because she wouldn't tell people when she wasn't feeling well. But even that was slowly becoming less of an occurrence as her body finally started to grow stronger. It was at the point now that not only was Mira comfortable with the idea of adopting another child, she was actually starting to want one. Her only real wish being that she could actually have a child with Will, not just adopting one. Although most of the Lylattian races could mate and have children with each other, the child generally ending up being the race of the parent with a matching gender, hybirds like Mira being an exception to that rule. Human DNA was too different from Lylattian, so it was something that was completely impossible for them to ever do. She was startled from her thought's as Will's arm settled on her shoulder, Mira instantly leaning into him. "I can't believe it's already been seven years. Time has really flown by, hasn't it?" Will's voice was quiet and soft for a change, something he never displayed to anyone but Mira, as far as she knew at least.

"Yeah. it really has." She closed her eyes as she said that, letting her head rest on his shoulder, unable to not smile. Her family was far from what she imagined it would be as a kid, but in all honesty, she liked the version life gave her so much better.

"Do you ever really want to have another kid? Like, I know we physically can't, I mean actually go look to adopt a child, as close to newborn as possible, not just stumble across a kid in need?" Mira was startled by his sudden soft spoken question, leaning away from Will. As if his tone wasn't enough, the way he was seriously staring right into her eyes told her he was dead serious about what he was saying.

"I….. would you believe me that I was just thinking of how badly I would love to have a child with you? I just….. it would be nice to not have to adopt you know?" Will smiled at her words, pulling her to her feet and into a hug.

"Yeah, I believe you, and it would be nice to not have to adopt but, life doesn't like to give us all we want. Just gotta take the hand you're dealt and make something of it." he gave the top of her head a gentle kiss just before continuing. "And I'll be the first to admit, I wouldn't call my hand as perfect. But I love what I do have, and I intend to keep it."

"Agreed. Guess we have to start looking at social services huh?" she chuckled as she spoke, Will joining her in quietly laughing.

"Yeah, but there's something else we gotta do first. I know of a shower that is currently not in use. You said you want to actually have a kid, so why don't we go and try to break science?" Mira gagged at his terrible attempt of a joke, just trying to not burst out laughing and wake Aiya. She intentionally stepped back enough to see his sly smirk, rolling her eye's at him.

"Will, did Krystal go and teach you to be a telepath when I wasn't looking?" Mira tried to suppress a laugh after she finished speaking, seeing the absolutely bewildered expression on his face. He shook his head no, clearly about to ask her something when she cut him off with a kiss, speaking as soon as she backed off. "Cause that's the second time tonight that you read my mind. And before we go, one thing." He raised an eyebrow at her, patiently waiting for whatever it was she was about to say. "'Try and break science?' that is freaking terrible Will! I love it!"

"I love you too Mira." He was just chuckling at her as he started to lead her toward the guest bathroom, Mira almost stopping him to respond once more.

"I love you too Will."

Fox sat on the edge of his bed massaging his pulsating leg, somewhat curious as to why the guest shower had been running for so long. he imagined Mira had wanted to take a shower, having learned over the years that she liked to shower before bed, Will preferring to shower in the mornings. Then again, it was entirely possible the shower had been running for so long because the pair were both in it. Now that the thought had crossed his mind, he couldn't shake the image of two of his best friends enjoying their private shower. You may be right, but you are still a perv, Fox. He audibly yelped as he heard Krystal's voice echoing in his head, instantly staring at the blue vixen. She was stark naked on their bed, laughing hard enough at his reaction that she had fallen over, showing off every single delectable curve her body had to offer. Needless to say, Fox was very happy to currently be wearing an equal amount of clothing, rolling his eye's at his wife.

"Now you kinda got me curious as to what they are up too. kinda, key word there." Krystal managed to calm her laughing fit down as Fox spoke to her, sitting back up and returning to the cross legged position she had been in, gently running her fingers through his tail, creating an utterly pleasurable experience that put him on the verge of creating quite the mess, especially as she began doing it to his back too.

"Well, currently, Mira's back is against the wall as Wi….." He physically reached over and clamped her snout shut to stop her, having no desire to actually know what his friends were doing right now.

"Krystal. That was a rhetorical question." He closed his eyes as he spoke, opening them when he felt Krystal's muzzle shift slightly within his soft grip. Krystal had managed to slip her tongue out from the end of her muzzle, closing her eye's as she canted her head to the side. Fox sighed as he finally released her, shaking his head at her. no force in the world could have stopped the smile on his muzzle, the only thing preventing his tail from moving being the vixen currently latched onto it. "I really don't want to know about my friend's sex lives. Although, someone here seems to be quite interested in it."

"It's not my fault my telepathy is too strong to fully control! And why don't you go talk to them about having such strong aura's! it's nigh impossible to ignore the four of them, especially when they are all going at it!" Krystal had spent months with some of the older surviving Cerinians, trying to learn more about and strengthen her own telepathy, primarily to help Will. And she had learned more than she could ever even begin to describe to Fox, and was able to do more with her telepathy than even Fox thought possible. But she had grown too powerful to fully control it anymore, as she used to be able to do. Now, she listened in on other people's minds without meaning to all the time. Fox couldn't stop the fur of his cheeks popping up as he realized the full meaning of her words. That it wasn't just Mira and Will having their fun tonight. As he realized that, he became distinctly aware of the soft moans coming from the opposite direction of the shower. Although, if he could hear them through three walls and over the shower running, he felt sorry for Marcus, whose head was probably just a couple feet from theirs, wall or no wall. "I mean, it would probably be easier if I had some sort of….distraction?" Fox tried to suppress his grin at her very thinly veiled request, just barely tilting the corners of his muzzle up.

"Oh, how bout this?" he snaked his hand over to the base of her tail, gently scratching at the fur. She was almost instantly moaning with pleasure, literally falling back on top of his hand, eye's sealed shut.

"Mmmhmm No not quite cutting it Fox!" she seemed to barely be able to get that out, Fox no longer able to suppress his smile.

"Okay, how about…." He quickly slipped up onto the bed, pressing his body down across her's as he gently kissed the tip of her snout, repeating the motion down the side of her snout all the way to the soft fur of her neck, very gently biting her loose skin with his front teeth. By the sound of her moaning, he definitely had her on the ropes, and they hadn't even really started yet. "….. That? Doing the trick yet?" He stopped what he was doing for barely more than a moment so he could whisper that into her ear.

"Not even close yet!" he could easily hear just how much harder that phrase had been for her to actually say, already knowing exactly what he was going to do next.

Wolf groaned with pleasure as he flopped onto the guest bed, his entire groin region covered in bodily fluids. Of course, the same could probably be said about his whole body, being covered in sweat. He let his eye's close, simply enjoying the slightly cool air that was in the room, which was considerably warmer since they had started.

"Mmmmm, make up sex is definitely the best." Sheila's sweet voice seemed to ring across the dark room, making a smile almost instantly appear on Wolf's face.

He let out a contented sigh, still not willing to open his eyes. "I can agree with you on that, that's for sure."

"Wolf, why haven't we been married yet?" That question, on the other hand, made Wolf's eye's slide open, looking over at the dark shape that he knew was her. she was lying on her chest, her arms crossed on her pillow, head on her arms. Both of her lower legs were slowly kicking back and forth, almost like she was lazily trying to swim.

Wolf froze, completely unsure as to what exactly to say. In almost fifteen years together, it was something neither of them had ever brought up. Wolf, in all honesty, never wanted it brought up. It wasn't that he didn't love her. he did, whole heartedly. As stupid as it might sound, he didn't want to get married, because he had been intending to marry Fara, just before she disappeared, and was subsequently killed. "I…. Ummm….. I don't want to marry you….." he didn't get a chance to explain, able to simply feel her furious glare at his words. He cringed, trying to mentally prepare himself for the onslaught he had just unleashed.

"What!? Why not!? You do love me, right?! You haven't been staying with me for this long because of your kids, have you?!" although she kept her voice quiet, he could tell she was absolutely furious.

I gotta think of a way to calm her down…. I just… how do I explain this to her? he took a deep breath, trying to focus himself. He had never said a word to her about Fara. She likely knew some details, from Mira or Krystal, but never from him. "Sheila…. You….. you are the second person I have ever loved." Something about his quiet whisper, the barely contained pain in his voice, seemed to calm her. he didn't know how he knew that, just that it was so. "And I had been planning to marry her…. or, more accurately, I had decided to propose to her….. the night she was kidnapped. A few weeks later, we found her dead….. I…. I never want that to happen to you….. I know that sounds stupid but, I feel like if I go for that again…. Something is going to happen to you because of it…" he bit his upper lip, staring at her dark form as he waited for her response, just hoping she understood.

"Wolf." He gulped as she spoke. she still sounded very angry. "You are the biggest fucking moron I have ever met! That is the only reason you haven't married me?!" She laughed after she spoke, shaking the entire bed.

"Well, uh yeah, that is the only reason! I'm just scared okay!?" he winced again as his words only seemed to make her laugh harder.

"Wolf, you are an amazing guy. Smart, aggressive in all the right ways, just…. Stunning." He knew she was talking about his body right there. "But you are a straight up paranoid moron. Just man up and propose already or I will!" She sounded beyond happy, and completely amused, almost ceaselessly chuckling.

"A-Alright, Fine! we are getting married, okay!?" Wolf was starting to panic, Sheila just laughing even more.

"But aren't you forgetting something, stupid?" he hated the amount of sass in her voice right there, part of him wanting to scream at her. but that was part of why he loved her. No one could get under his skin like she could. He quickly scrabbled to the edge of the bed, yanking a shoe lace from his boot before grabbing a pocket knife from his drawer.

"Alright fine, you want this to be more or less correct, sit up, please!?" she did exactly as he said, simply smiling at him. "Sheila, would you please marry me?"

"Of course, as soon as you give me a ring, stupid? And why do you have a shoelace?" she stuck her tongue out at him, closing her eyes and giving him the exact opportunity he wanted. Before she could react, he had slipped the shoelace around her ring finger and tied it into a loose knot, deftly using the knife to cut the excess away.

"There's your ring, will you just shut up and marry me now so we can go back to being us?" she stared at the roughly cut, loosely tied section of shoelace after he spoke, one ear canting to the side as her eyebrow rose.

"This is your idea of a ring?" he growled to himself, her obvious enjoyment of the matter only increasing. But before she could say more, he grabbed her and pinned her to the bed beneath him, gently kissing the end of her snout.

"And, do you have a problem with my ring?" he could see her half lidded glare at his words, and watched as her eye's rolled.

"Nope, not at all. But, you have two punishments for such a terrible ring!" she stuck her tongue out at him again for a second, bouncing her head up off the bed and licking the interior of his ear. Her extra slimy tongue coated his ear with saliva, making him cringe. "That's number one!, number two, you have to change ALL of our next babies diapers." His cringe only increased. " And number three, you still have a lot of work to do tonight!" that last one made him grin, lowering his muzzle to hers, kissing her once more as he slid a hand under her, sliding his hand through her mass of hair, down her back and straight to her rear, instantly grabbing it. "Mmmmmm, and before I forget, you got about seven months before you gotta change those diapers."

He almost mistoke her whisper in his ear, pushing himself up off of her again. "I…. I mean…. You're….. we….." he was stumbling over every sentence his brain was trying to say.

"Yup, number six! Now, don't you have work to do?" she giggled at him as she spoke, Wolf just smiling again and lowering himself down to her.

Aiya could swear she felt someone gently shake her, but she had absolutely no desire to move. She was exhausted after all, and it was winter break. She had no need to get up. Quite honestly, she was tired enough that she had no idea why she was tired. All she really knew for certain was that she was comfortable, warm, and very much so irritated that someone was trying to wake her up.

"Aiya! Come on, it's Christmas morning!" she heard Marcus's voice, cracking an eye open only to see her own hair. She grumbled and let her eye close again, trying to burrow deeper into blanket. "Aiya! Come on, I have a present I want to give you!" she felt some one very gently brush her hair out of her eye's, cracking them open to find Marcus in front of her, shirtless and in shorts, which was how he normally slept. He was smiling at her, his tail excitedly wagging behind him, unable to contain it.

"Yeah yeah, give me a minute." With that, she pulled the blanket over her head, closed her eye's and almost fell back to sleep. Then what he said finally clicked in her brain and she shot up right, now totally excited. Of course, that made Marcus burst out laughing, Aiya unable to stop the blood rushing to her cheeks.

"Aiya, you are priceless in the mornings! One minute, you are fighting staying asleep, the next, you are catapulting off to wherever your going for the day!"

"Marcus!" her ears pressed down on top of her head.

"Don't worry about it Aiya! Really, its adorable!" he gently patted her arm as he spoke, his head already toward the kitchen as he stood. Otherwise, he would have noticed her blushing furiously, the fur on her cheeks practically standing on end. He thinks I'm adorable! That's… I….. she tried to take a deep breath, running her hands down her muzzle several times, just trying to smooth her fur down. okay, calm down, he didn't mean it that way… he just… were good friends. She might be young, but she was not naïve to the ways of the world, or at least not fully. Heck, she could admit that there was already someone she had a crush on.

She quickly got up and stretched, wrapping the blanket around herself once more. Marcus was in the kitchen, starting up the coffee maker. The aroma from it was already starting to waft around the room, Aiya padding her way over to him as he seemed to already be preparing something. Before she could say anything, he turned around, smiling with a pair of mugs in his hands. "Here, it's really hot still so I don't know, drink sparingly? I made enough for the others too." she glanced behind him as he spoke, seeing a second coffee pot, but it wasn't full of coffee. She gingerly extracted both of her hands from her bundle of blanket, accepting the steaming mug. One whiff told her it was hot chocolate, making her grin. She instantly sipped some, the hot liquid feeling glorious to her body, and the flavor being deep and rich. She had absolutely no idea how he managed to make such amazing hot chocolate, but he always did.

"Thanks marcus. You always make the best hot chocolate!" she saw him visibly blushing, trying to hide it as he took an abnormally large drink of his own. He was almost instantly swallowing, his entire head shaking slightly as his eyes went wide. As soon as he had swallowed the liquid, he let his tongue slip out of his mouth.

"Ow, Ow, OW! HOT! VERY HOT! OW!" He set the mug on the counter, pawing at his now burnt tongue.

Aiya couldn't help but laugh at his antics, both her hands clutched around the warm mug. "Well dufas, if you followed your own advice, you wouldn't have this problem! Don't worry though, I think its really cute!" Almost immediately upon saying the last part of her statement, she was blushing again. Of course, if she hadn't turned around, she would have seen Marcus blushing right along side her. instead, she saw her father slowly trying to get off the couch, but her mother seemed latched around his neck.

"Come on Mira! You are stopping me from getting my coffee!" Aiya giggled as her father tried fruitlessly to pry her off of him, her mother grumbling out something totally unintelligible. Her father's shoulders just slumped in defeat, letting his head fall back against the couch. "There are times where I really wish you weren't so damned cuddly! Aw well, it's not like I don't love it." He wrapped his arms around her, gently kissing the top of her head. Most people her age probably would be embarrassed by their parents acting this way, but they were like this all the time, and probably will never stop. Aiya made her way over to the couch, realizing too late that she couldn't sit down, her mother's legs being in the way. Before she could move to go to a different seat, her father reached over, wrapping his arm under her mother's knees and picked her up, setting her back down on his lap, almost like he had just moved a small child. And she still didn't let go. Aiya happily slipped onto the now open couch, still swathed in the blanket. She glanced beside her as sat down, realizing that there were several sets of punctures on the side of her father's neck, unable to stop her eyes from going wide. She may not have known much about that side of life, but she knew why the skin on her own neck was thicker and tougher than it necessarily needed. Humans, on the other hand, had normal skin on their necks. "I really should wake her up… I'm sure people want to open presents… and I want my coffee….." her father was gently stroking her mother's tail as he spoke, the hybrid letting out a soft purr. "And out like a light, still purr's like a cat."

"Mmmm, thaaat'ss caussse that feeelss amazing Will…." Aiya's mother's words were slurred and barely audible, Her father just chuckling at her before kissing her cheek.

"So you are awake? You just don't want me getting my coffee?"

"Noooooo, I'm not awake! And bad cop, no coffee! No doughnut either!"

"Alright, fine, no more tail pets till I get my coffee then!" Mira instantly let go of Will as he said that, Aiya trying to suppress a giggle. As awkward as they could be at times, her parents were hysterical, and she absolutely loved them.

"But that means I have to get up!" Aiya again rolled her eye's at her mother's antics, but no more followed, as a swarm of O'Donnell's and the two remaining McCloud's came made their way into the room. She made room for Nathan beside her, watching as he lustfully eyed her hot chocolate.

"There's more in the kitchen Nate!" he grumbled at Aiya but complied, sliding off the couch. She caught several eye raises and chuckles as the adults all saw her father's neck, who seemed to not care one bit about it.

"Alright Pups off the seats! That includes you Fox!" Wolf's commanding and deep voice echoed even in the small space of the main hall. Aiya just smiled as she slid off the couch, used to the almost tradition of the kids not being on the couch for opening presents.

"Wolf, I am not a Pup, quit calling me that already you dumb oaf!" Wolf just stuck his tongue out at Fox's remark, all of the adults claiming seats as the kids all beelined for the tree, save the four older ones that is.

"Whoa, hey, patience! Nathan, if you would please?!" Sheila shouted that to stop the kids, surprisingly succeeding. Nathan simply nodded in response, Flannery doing her best to control the two year old. All of them were still in pajama's, the only exceptions being Aiya, and her parents. The first gift he selected was one Aiya recognized, because it had her name on it.

"Alright, number one! To Aiya From Marcus!" Nathan lightly tossed the box to Marcus as he spoke, Marcus catching it as he dropped beside Aiya.

"Here. Open it, I know you will love it." he was smiling as he held the present out for her, Aiya wanting to shrivel up as she felt every pair of eye's in the room on her, grabbing the box and quickly ripping the paper off, finding a plain cardboard clothing box. She raised an eyebrow at him as she opened it, seeing teal fabric with in. she pulled it out to find that it was a pull over hooded sweatshirt, with the logo for her favorite band on it. she squealed in delight, unable to stop wagging.

"How did you know I wanted some new hoodies Marcus!?" he just smiled at her, sticking his tongue out.

"Come on Aiya, try it on!" she heard her Father's voice from the couch, still underneath Mira, but at least someone had brought him a mug of coffee. She quickly unwrapped herself from the blanket, the sudden drop in temperature making her shiver slightly. She quickly slipped the hoodie on, instantly putting the hood up. It didn't have slots for her ears, but she didn't mind, feeling almost immediately warmer in the baggy hoodie, unable to not grin. Which had been the absolute wrong moment for her, given Sheila had her phone out, instantly snapping a picture.

"H-Hey! I didn't want my picture taken!" Sheila just laughed, Aiya just trying to shrivel up into the sweatshirt. She was very thankful that she didn't get another gift, just happy watching as everyone else received gifts, from new games and toys to clothing and so forth. Until Nathan finally pulled a tiny box from the tree itself, Aiya instantly blushing. Oh boy… here we go, I hope he likes this! she tucked her knees into her hoodie as she bit her lip, very glad to be able to bury herself deeper in her new hoodie.

"Alright next is…. Marcus, from Aiya! Here!" Nathan tossed the tiny package to Marcus, marcus easily catching it. he raised an eyebrow at her before quickly opening it, pulling out the small bracelet with in. it was a larger strip of deep brown leather, with several strands of icy blue and dark blue beaded leather bands bound around it, two leather strings falling from either end to tie it to his wrist, with plenty of excess for him to grow into. The leather was bound together to form two sets of repeating arrow patterns, pointed toward each other. The last two icy blue arrows touched in center, the empty space being dark blue. The bead's glistened slightly as he played with it for a second, a small smile on his face.

"This is really cool Aiya! Where did you even find it!" Aiya shriveled up into her hoodie even more as he spoke, unable to stop the amount of blood in her cheeks. There was no way she could hide her cheek fur's position with out the hood.

"I-I made it…. Actually…." she barely managed to say that. It had taken her months of practice to even learn how to make the bracelet, and she had twenty different scrapped attempts before she had made that one. Marcus's shoulders slumped as she spoke, Aiya barely noticed that Nathan was already passing out more gifts. "It's…. well, you want to go explore the galaxy right?" he nodded, so she continued. "Well, um, this….. it's to tell you to always remember to come back home, okay!? That I'll make sure there is always a place for you to call home!" If anything, her attempt to explain it seemed to make him to deflate even more, Aiya seeing his eye's starting to well up. "Yo-You don't li-like it?"

Marcus closed his eye's and smiled to her, but he still looked sad. "No, I love it, it's just….. you went out and made me something amazing! And all I did was buy you a stupid sweatshirt…..i just…. I feel bad. I could have done so much better….." she didn't let him continue, launching herself to him and hugging him as tightly as she could, barely noticing the hood of her sweatshirt falling down as she wrapped her head around his shoulder, pressing her chin down on his back.

"No! I love your gift! It was thoughtful, and perfect! It's warm and soft and comfortable, just like you!" she felt a few tears slip out of her own eyes, trying to force her eye's closed and stop them. she felt his arms go around her smaller frame, her muscles relaxing at his incredibly gently touch.

"Okay. And thanks Aiya. No matter how far I go, I'll always remember to come home to you. especially now that I have this." she felt his snout rest on her head for a few seconds, simply happy that her friend liked her gift. No one noticed the small heartfelt exchange between the young kits. Or so they thought, as Krystal's mouth twitched up as she watched the pair from the corner of her eye, her telepathy telling her all about the whole exchange.